Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)
Erwin Mortier’s novel Marcel (1999) addresses the still controversial topic of the Flemish collaboration with the German occupier during the Second World War, and its subsequent repression by the Belgian state. Told from the perspective of a grandchild of the guilty generation, Mortier’s novel has often been read as a narrative of emerging understanding and reconciliation. Seen through the prism of Amy Elias’s concept of the historical sublime, the novel in fact suggests that the truth about the past remains inaccessible, even as the child protagonist is driven by a powerful desire to unveil i... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Indiana University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Flemish Literature / Historical Novel / Second World War / Postmodernism |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26705753 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.44.1.10 |