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“For them the war had not ended”1: the Culture of Remembrance in Germany in Günter Grass’ Novella Crabwalk

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Аnna V. Dobryashkina
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: Russia – Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945)
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-81-108
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/ENXSOP
  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Dobryashkina, A.V. “ʽFor Them the War Had Not Ended’: the Culture of Remembrance in Germany in Günter Grass’ Novella Crabwalk.” Russia — Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 81–108. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-81-108

Information about the author:

Anna V. Dobryashkina, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-4744

Abstract:

The article examines the post-Second World War process of remembrance in Germany in Grass’s novella Crabwalk: memories of three generations, their understanding of their own national identity and the national identity of their historical enemy. The change in the axiological perception of World War II victims leads to a change in the historical paradigm of the criminal and the victim.

  • Keywords: Günter Grass, culture of remembrance (memory culture), National Socialist past, collective memory, the Second World War, Holocaust literature, paradigm shift in history, German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (“mastering the past”, “coming to terms with the past”), Aufrechnung von der Schuld (“mutual set-off of guilt”), national identity.

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