Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State - Professionalism and Conformity in the GDR

Summary

This collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers and literary scholars, including several Stasi informants, provides a survey of the motivations, compromises and illusions of East German intellectual life.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert von Hallberg (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780226864976
• ISBN: 978-0-226-86497-6
• No. of pages: 373
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, german, Political science & theory, Literary studies: general, Political science and theory, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999