Abstract
Abstract Our analysis of Joachim Wittstock’s narrative entitled Hades and published thirteen years after the fall of the communist regime in Romania aims at pointing out the intimate connection between socio-political reality and personal experience reflected by the creative process of turning reality into fiction by writing. We consider the chosen narrative both as a political and literary statement, reflecting much of the way of life in Romania during the late 1980s. The narrative may be considered as some kind of withheld fiction and a pertinent comment of the author as to the role of fiction in a totalitarian regime.
Highlights
Der knapp sechzehneinhalb Seiten lange Text, dem wir uns hier widmen wollen, wurde 2002 im Erzählungsband Scherenschnitt[1] erstveröffentlicht
Our analysis of Joachim Wittstock‘s narrative entitled Hades and published thirteen years after the fall of the communist regime in Romania aims at pointing out the intimate connection between socio-political reality and personal experience reflected by the creative process of turning reality into fiction by writing
The narrative may be considered as some kind of withheld fiction and a pertinent comment of the author as to the role of fiction in a totalitarian regime
Summary
Der knapp sechzehneinhalb Seiten lange Text, dem wir uns hier widmen wollen, wurde 2002 im Erzählungsband Scherenschnitt[1] erstveröffentlicht. Die rumänische Gegenwart der 1980er Jahre mit ihren politischen Konnotationen findet sich in diesem Panoptikum sorgsam konserviert und präpariert wieder, wofür auch Trikolore und das gerahmte Präsidentenporträt stehen: „Um gewichtigen Vorschriften zu genügen, war in einem Winkel des Raums eine Trikolore in einen Ständer gesteckt, und von der Wand blickte, aus einem Bilderrahmen, der Landespräsident auf das Publikum.“19
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