First Advisor

Franz Langhammer

Term of Graduation

Summer 1990

Date of Publication

7-24-1990

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in German

Department

Foreign Languages and Literatures

Language

English

Subjects

Walter Kempowski -- Criticism and interpretation, Education in literature

DOI

10.15760/etd.5877

Physical Description

1 online resource (3, v, 111 pages)

Abstract

This thesis attempts to prove that Walter Kempowski writes historical fiction. For this reason he should be considered an important 20th century German author. This contention is based on the presence of historical references regarding the topic of Erziehung in the Kempowski Familienchronik.

The Familienchronik is a series of six novels which follow the historical development of the Kempowski family in Germany beginning from the year 1900 and continuing through 1963. Unique to the novels is that they represent thoughts and actions of the German middle-class spanning these years. The author does not attempt to use hindsight as a means of intervention in order to expose past wrong-doings. Rather, he lets these wrong-doings speak for themselves -- they are manifested in the routine activities of bourgeois life.

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