Returning to the Source: Adaptation and Memory in the Essays of Monika Maron
Abstract
In the collection of essays Zwei Brüder (2010), the German writer Monika Maron (1941) offers her personal reflections on the causes and consequences of the reunification of Germany and examines the most recent history of her home country from an individual, critical and diachronic perspective.
The aim of this current study is to present a brief analysis of each essay with special attention given to how the author focuses on specific moments of time in order to reconstruct two decades of German history and further to reveal how, by reviewing the impact of these essays both individually in their original historical context and also as a volume in modern time, the author seeks not only to reinterpret the past but also to reconcile it with the presentDownloads
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