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<p>The article follows the two volumes of essays <italic>The King Bows and Kills</italic> (2003) and Always the same snow and always the same uncle (2011) written by Herta Müller. Politics and aesthetics define the Nobel laureate’s writing, with her essays anchored in Romania’s recent history. They are of a political nature, offer retrospectives on their life in Romania beyond the Iron Curtain, insights into the dictatorial past, persecution by the secret service, the betrayal of closest friends, but also contain reflections on the role of the language, the preference for Romanian, on the use of “The King” in their fictional texts, explain their “alien gaze”. Always the same snow and always the same uncle focuses on the deportation of the Romanian Germans to the Ukraine, with the information serving as a companion work to the novel <italic>Hunger angel</italic>. The betrayal of closest friends is also discussed, whereby the insight into their files and the past of Oskar Pastior/Otto Stein’s files are used.</p>
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The article follows the two volumes of essays The King Bows and Kills (2003) and Always the same snow and always the same uncle (2011) written by Herta Müller. Politics and aesthetics define the Nobel laureate’s writing, with her essays anchored in Romania’s recent history. They are of a political nature, offer retrospectives on their life in Romania beyond the Iron Curtain, insights into the dictatorial past, persecution by the secret service, the betrayal of closest friends, but also contain reflections on the role of the language, the preference for Romanian, on the use of “The King” in their fictional texts, explain their “alien gaze”. Always the same snow and always the same uncle focuses on the deportation of the Romanian Germans to the Ukraine, with the information serving as a companion work to the novel Hunger angel. The betrayal of closest friends is also discussed, whereby the insight into their files and the past of Oskar Pastior/Otto Stein’s files are used.

Die Essayistik Herta Müllers

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The article follows the two volumes of essays The King Bows and Kills (2003) and Always the same snow and always the same uncle (2011) written by Herta Müller....

Die Essayistik Herta Müllers

Publié en ligne: 22 avr. 2023

Pages: 34 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2022-0002

Mots clés
committed writing, politics, dictatorship, deportation, trauma

© 2023 Grazziella Predoiu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Die Essayistik Herta Müllers

Publié en ligne: 22 avr. 2023

Pages: 34 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2022-0002

Mots cléscommitted writing, politics, dictatorship, deportation, trauma

© 2023 Grazziella Predoiu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
committed writing, politics, dictatorship, deportation, trauma