Eleonora Hummels Roman Die Fische von Berlin im Blickpunkt narratologischer Erinnerungsinszenierung

• Authors: Wolfgang Brylla

Title variants

EN

THE NOVEL BY ELEONORA HUMMEL DIE FISCHE VON BERLIN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE BY THE NARRATIVE PRESENTATION OF MEMORY

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

In the German linguistic literary studies there is an observable tendency to analyse texts from the perspective of the “rhetoric of memory”; to the fore comes an attempt to situate them in the discourse of the memory. During the analyses two fundamental questions are posed: about the structures of the memory texts on the one hand, and about the structures of the narratively presented recollections on the other. The narrative conception in the novel by Eleonora Hummel Die Fische von Berlin consists of heterogeneous single recollections which inosculate with each other and constitute a homogeneous (collective) memory. In Hummel’s history about “Russian Germans” (“Russlanddeutsche”) two memory trails are accentuated, pertinent to two different generations. For this reason her novel can be classified as the subgenre of the “memory novel.”

Keywords

EN

THE RHETORIC OF MEMORY; THE MEMORY NOVEL; THE NARRATIVE CONCEPTION; THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 136
• Pages: 9-23

Contributors

author

Wolfgang Brylla