Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature

by Katharina Gerstenberger

Book Overview

A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.

The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary -- in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin -- of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135138
• ISBN13: 9781571135131
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"