If we consider the history of east-German literature as one of emancipation, Erich Loest, a writer born in 1926 in Saxony, is a perfect illustration of it. Both dictatorships under which he lived and from which he suffered, have deeply affected this writer whose work is wholly dominated by the theme of power. After putting his literary talents to the service of the new communist state of the GDR, he gradually slipped away from that supervision to eventually oppose himself openly to an oppressive power. It is interesting to notice that the literary qualities of his works increases as he distances himself from the power. Whereas he had spent several years in the prisons of the state from 1957 to 1964, in 1981 he had to go into exile, losing t...
La perte des Provinces de l'est allemandes en 1945 a été à l'origine d'une abondante littérature exp...
“But I Still Had This Question: How Does One Live Under a Dictatorship?” Christa Wolf – Hopes and Di...
Among French writers supporting the Resistance from 1939 and then during the war years, an underlyin...
After leaving a GDR prison, in the 60s, Erich Loest started to write crime stories under the pseudon...
In the first few days following Hitler’s rise to power, the National Socialist party introduced seve...
Like most baroque novels, Hinze-Kunze Roman can be read on several levels. First it can be seen as a...
Jean de La Hire, auteur français célèbre pendant la première moitié du xxe siècle pour ses romans po...
International audienceIlya Ehrenbourg, a perfect example of artistic collaboration with a political ...
At the end of the year 1942 in occupied France the novelist and translator Alexandre Vialatte publis...
A civil Uprising on 17 June 1953 in the German Democratic Republic created a dilemma for a number of...
The theme of my research is identity, the transmission of History into a family and the social decon...
Autorität (und Publikum) einzig der Partei verdankt. Der dominierte Schriftsteller, Autodidakt und m...
Czesław Miłosz was born in 1911 in the countryside of Lithuania then located in the Russian empire, ...
The writers Thomas Mann (1875–1955) and Erich Kästner (1899–1974) took in the years between 1933 an...
Der Autor berichtet von seinen Begegnungen, die bis in die frühen 70er Jahre zurückreichen und gehäu...
La perte des Provinces de l'est allemandes en 1945 a été à l'origine d'une abondante littérature exp...
“But I Still Had This Question: How Does One Live Under a Dictatorship?” Christa Wolf – Hopes and Di...
Among French writers supporting the Resistance from 1939 and then during the war years, an underlyin...
After leaving a GDR prison, in the 60s, Erich Loest started to write crime stories under the pseudon...
In the first few days following Hitler’s rise to power, the National Socialist party introduced seve...
Like most baroque novels, Hinze-Kunze Roman can be read on several levels. First it can be seen as a...
Jean de La Hire, auteur français célèbre pendant la première moitié du xxe siècle pour ses romans po...
International audienceIlya Ehrenbourg, a perfect example of artistic collaboration with a political ...
At the end of the year 1942 in occupied France the novelist and translator Alexandre Vialatte publis...
A civil Uprising on 17 June 1953 in the German Democratic Republic created a dilemma for a number of...
The theme of my research is identity, the transmission of History into a family and the social decon...
Autorität (und Publikum) einzig der Partei verdankt. Der dominierte Schriftsteller, Autodidakt und m...
Czesław Miłosz was born in 1911 in the countryside of Lithuania then located in the Russian empire, ...
The writers Thomas Mann (1875–1955) and Erich Kästner (1899–1974) took in the years between 1933 an...
Der Autor berichtet von seinen Begegnungen, die bis in die frühen 70er Jahre zurückreichen und gehäu...
La perte des Provinces de l'est allemandes en 1945 a été à l'origine d'une abondante littérature exp...
“But I Still Had This Question: How Does One Live Under a Dictatorship?” Christa Wolf – Hopes and Di...
Among French writers supporting the Resistance from 1939 and then during the war years, an underlyin...