Suicide in East German Literature: Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage

by Robert Blankenship and Professor Robert Blankenship

This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature.

The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157113574X
• ISBN13: 9781571135742
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"