Suicide in East German Literature: Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage

by Robert Blankenship and Professor Robert Blankenship

The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157113574X
• ISBN13: 9781571135742
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"