Information about the author:
Tamara V. Kudryavtseva
Tamara V. Kudryavtseva, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8279-8639
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Abstract:
The article examines the works of the modern German writer of Turkish origin Feridun Zaimoglu (born in 1964). The phenomenon of German-Turkish literature (the literature of migrants of the second and third generations) has not actually been explored by Russian Germanists. The works of Zaymoglu, who is very popular in his homeland, are unknown to Russian readers due to the lack of translations of his works into Russian. The focus of this article is on the pro- cess of F. Zaymoglu’s cultural self-determination and on his gradual entry into the German cultural space. The result was his conscious choice of German cultural identity. This is seen in Zaymoglu’s works written over a period of about thirty years (1995–2022).
