Herta Muller’s Modeling Estacade in the Novel “The Hunger Angel”

Abstract

The article analyses the novel “The Hunger Angel” (“Atemschaukel” in original) by a German writer Herta Muller (Herta Müller in original), who received a Nobel Prize dedicated to literature. To achieve the paper purpose the following methods are used: the method of conceptual analysis, the method of science fiction analysis, the comparative method. In the novel the mentality of a dominant narrator is being observed. The narrator himself is genetically incorporated in the German ethno culture and his fate is bound to the specific Romanian, Ukrainian and Austrian realities. The novel can be freely associated with a special modeling estacade where the main directions of route-visual movement are verified. The events and figurative associations that are set out in the novel are actually being interpreted through the narrator’s conscience. A mental collision with senses of otherness, personal, different, counter-reality and parallel reality in the novel are shown. The geo mental collisions of the main character Leopold Auberg are made in a way that they can touch and consume personal and intimate feelings together with wide and global social tendencies that are inherent to the daily life events of second half of the ХХ century.