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Explores the performance of aging in the'late style'of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent'late-style'German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers'narrativize'aging. Finally, it examines the'timeliness'of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and eco

Author

Stuart Taberner

Publisher

Camden House

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571135780

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History