Geschichten statt Geschichte. Dieter Fortes erzählerische Aufarbeitung des Bombenkriegs im Kontext der Sebald-Debatte
Abstract
After the author and germanist W.G. Sebald had inspired, by the end of last century nineties, a public discussion about the bombing warfare in the German literature, the Second World War has become one of the dominating themes in German present-day literature. But much earlier, the author D. Forte had already shown, in a nearly nine hundred pages novelistic trilogy, the fundamental importance of written and oral narrations about the past. Based on this author, the article tries to work out the importance of memory and narration and thus, also of literature as well for individual identity construction, as for collective historical consciousness.Después de que, a finales de los años noventa, el autor y germanista W.G.Sebald hubiera provocado una discusión pública sobre los bombardeos de las ciudades en la literatura alemana, la Segunda Guerra Mundial ha llegado a convertirse en uno de los temas dominantes de la literatura alemana contemporánea. Pero con anterioridad, el autor D.Forte ya había mostrado en su trilogía novelesca de casi novecientas páginas el papel fundamental que tiene la narración oral y escrita del pasado. El artículo intenta estudiar, basándose en este autor, la importancia de la memoria y la narración y con ello también de la literatura tanto para la construcción de la identidad individual como para la conciencia histórica colectiva.
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