Table of Contents

Contents: Writing herself out of the System: The Early Texts – Transgressing in Style: Das Mißverständnis and Die Überläuferin as Counter-Texts – Writing and Rewriting: The Problem of History in Stille Zeile Sechs – Love and Loss after the Wall: Animal triste – Exposing the Gaps in Memory: Forgetting and Remembering in Pawels Briefe – Lebensentwürfe, Zeitenbrüche: Biographers and Biographies in Endmoränen and Ach Glück.

About the Author

Deirdre Byrnes teaches German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She was awarded her PhD from University College Dublin. Her research and teaching interests include GDR literature, the literature and architecture of the Berlin Republic, and memory discourses.

Reviews

«The great strengths of Byrnes’ monograph are its evenness, coherence and clarity. It is carefully presented and elegantly written, providing a very good introduction to readers interested in Maron’s work and its relationship to the post-Wende context. For this reason, it will be a welcome source for those teaching contemporary German-language texts in third-level institutions.» (Gillian Pye, Germanistik in Ireland)
«Die Studie zum Gesamtwerk Monika Marons gibt einen guten Überblick über die Entwicklung der Prosa M.s, die im Kontext zunehmender Desillusionierung der Autorin im ehemaligen DDR-Staat zu sehen ist. [...] Dieses Buch [ist] ein willkommener und nützlicher Beitrag zum Verständnis des Werkes in seiner Gesamtheit.» (Silke von der Emde, Germanistik 53, 2012/1-2)