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Text Crimes in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Case of Bernhard Schlink's 'Der Vorleser'/'The Reader'
Katharina Hall
German Monitor, Volume: 77, Start page: 193
Swansea University Author: Katharina Hall
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Abstract
This journal article surveys the highly polarised reception of Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader (1995) in German-language and Anglophone (British, American, and other) criticism. Beginning with a diachronic overview, the essay illuminates different waves of responses to the text over the...
| Published in: | German Monitor |
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| ISSN: | 0927-1910 |
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German Monitor
2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa785 |
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This journal article surveys the highly polarised reception of Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader (1995) in German-language and Anglophone (British, American, and other) criticism. Beginning with a diachronic overview, the essay illuminates different waves of responses to the text over the seventeen years since its publication, before examining the dominant issues raised by critics, alongside the dialogues that have taken place between reviewers and/or academics. The essay identifies key trends, arguments and critical contributions within The Reader’s reception, examining in particular the two key ‘text crimes’ of which the novel stands accused – ethical ‘crimes against the history and memory of the Holocaust’ and ‘crimes against literature’. |
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German literature, German film, National Socialism, Holocaust, reception studies |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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193 |