Niederungen by Herta Müller: a critical approach to the scars of an unbreathable childhood
Keywords:
migrant literature, exile, multiculturalism, dictatorship, memory, Herta Müller.
Abstract
Through the look and narrative voice of a Romanian girl, the writer Herta Müller brings us closer with her first work – Niederungen (En tierras bajas) - to the still living scars of her own childhood in a small village in the region of Timisoara at the time of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. This article attempts a critical approach to the recurring theme focused on the complaint of the country left behind by the author after her own experience of exile to West Germany in 1987. A critical analysis of this first work written by Müller in the German language brings us closer to her intercultural literature. The high quality of the literary production of this German-Romanian migrant writer was finally awarded in 2009 with the Nobel Prize for Literature.Downloads
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Published
2017-02-16
How to Cite
García-Hernández Y. (2017). Niederungen by Herta Müller: a critical approach to the scars of an unbreathable childhood. Revista de Filología Románica, 33(2), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFRM.55286
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