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Abstract:

The literary discussions that unfolded in the early 1990s around the person of Chr. Wolf quickly turned into a public discussion about the image of the new Germany and the path it was following. The turbulence of public opinion has clearly manifested itself in them. Thus, in the diary of one of the main characters of U. Telkamp's novel “The Tower” (2008), the image of the “state of workers and peasants” gradually turns into a phantasmagoria. The whole huge novel is a story about the spiritual principle in modern man, about the recovery of a personality going through moments of skepticism, disappointed by himself and the world around him. In the novel “In Times of Fading Light: The Story of a Family” (2011) by E. Ruge, the past and the present take place in the destinies of four generations of one family. E. Ruge poses to the reader a fundamental question about the honesty of human life in the 20th and 21st centuries, about personal and historical truth. The semantic intentions of L. Seiler's novel “Kruso” (2014) also do not amount to belittling the GDR. The author, despite the fact that he is creating a work about a tragic personali- ty who opposes the state system of East Germany, does not sing a song of praise to the West. The main character of the work understands the destructive alternative that he offers to the East. In general, these works to a certain extent summarize the tradition of intense reflections on the phenomenon of the GDR, which manifested itself earlier in the works of P. Süskind, K. Dickman, F. K. Delius, Chr. Hein, G. Grass, J. Sparschuh, J. Becker, W. Engler, W. Hilbig, S. Leinemann, Chr. Wolf, etc.