Reclaiming Heimat, Uprooting National Socialism in Anna Seghers's "Das Ende".
This article explores Anna Seghers's use of nature and pastoral writing in her exile tale "Das Ende" (1945). I argue that, by writing a story in which villagers and nature work together to hunt and rid Germany's war-torn landscape of Zillich, a former concentration camp guard, Seghers engages critic...
| Publicado en: | Seminar -- A Journal of Germanic Studies Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 159 - 175 |
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University of Toronto Press
May2023
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