The exiles of Herta Müller

  • Luis A. Acosta Gómez Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Keywords: Herta Müller’s literature, Nobel Price and press’ reaction, evolution of her texts, writing as memory, the experience of the exile and the fatherland belonging.

Abstract

Certainly Herta Müller became a largely recognized writer ever since the conferment of de Nobel Price in the year 2009. This article deals with a critic approach to the signification of her texts. There are first of all observed the press German and Romanian reactions about the conferment of the price. Thereafter is analyzed her first in Romania publicized text Niederungen and the latter evolution and confirmation of a peculiar writing already in the German exil and at the last the most important and characteristic of all her production Atemschaukel. Under a sociological point of view this contribution it deals the evolution of her literary texts by considering both exiles she has experienced where the historic memory becomes an essential guideline.

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Author Biography

Luis A. Acosta Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Departamento de Filología Alemana

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Acosta Gómez L. A. (2012). The exiles of Herta Müller. Revista de Filología Románica, 425-441. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2011.38715
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