The Uncompleted Past: Postwar German Novels and the Third Reich |
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action Alfred Andersch ambiguity Andersch artistic attempt Balthasar becomes black hole Bobrowski Böll Böll's Cat and Mouse CHAPTER characters Christa Wolf complex concept contrast critical Danzig trilogy dialectic Doctor Faustus documentary Drittes Reich East German evil fate father fiction freedom German Lesson Gesine's Gregor guilt Günter Grass Heinrich Heinrich Böll Heracles Hitler Ibid individual inner emigration ironic irony issue Johanna Johannes Bobrowski Knight's Cross Leverkühn Levin's Mill literary literature Mahlke Mahlke's Mann's metaphorical Model Childhood moral myth mythic Nansen narrative narrator narrator's Nazi past nazism Nelly Nelly's Nolde Oskar paintings patterns perception perspective Pilenz play Polish political positive postwar German present problem protagonist protest question reader realism reality reflection resistance role Schrella sense Siegfried Lenz Siggi socialist socialist realism story structure Stuttgart Sütterlin symbolic technique Third Reich Thomas Mann thought Tin Drum tion tradition writing Zanzibar Zeitblom