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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger’s Trug and Beyond
Author : Elke Gilson
Published in: Remembering and Rethinking the GDR
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter reflects on the ‘memory of GDR literature’ in a twofold way. It focuses on Klaus Schlesinger’s Trug (2000) and analyses the Romantic, uncanny make-up of the doppelgänger relationship it depicts in order to discuss the novel’s (thematic) treatment of the GDR past (i.e. memory of the GDR in literature). By situating the text within the author’s oeuvre and relating it to other exemplary Berlin novels published around the turn of the millennium it also demonstrates the afterlife of narrative techniques which may be described as ‘typical of the GDR’ in post-Wende Berlin literature (i.e. memory of GDR literature today).