Life Narratives of the Past: Herta Müller on Communist Romania

Mitroiu, Simona

doi:10.1080/10848770.2018.1524045

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“…This reality is an expression of the author's thoughts and concerns about specific problems in life. Herta Müller's novels describe the problems of life in her home country, Romania [1], [2], [3]. Bizuleanu's research focused on the author's imaginative aspect in transferring spatial ideas [1].…”

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“…It depicts the communist landscape ferocity, the mental trauma, and physical relocation into literary images created with psycho critical and narratological approaches in Müller's novels entitled Der Fuchs war Damals Schon der Jaeger and Herztier. Besides, Mitroiu examined the past traumas of the characters in all of Müller's novels [2]. Kurniawati studied the form of Brechtian-style resistance of the protagonists in the novel Herztier [3].…”

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Traces of the Power of the Proletariat Dictator in Herta Müller‘s Herztier

Kurniawati¹,

Sudikan²,

Ridwan³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021)

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The peculiarity of the novel as a work of imaginative narrative prose is its element of continuity. The fictional world reaches the reader because of the narrator's mediation. Therefore, the narrator is the most crucial element for readers to understand the story in the novel. This article examined the traces of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the novel Herztier by Herta Müller, which the first-person narrator mediated. By using Stanzel's narrative theory, this study focused on two problems. The first one was the description of the power system of the proletariat dictatorship in Herztier. The second one was the description of the characters' suffering caused by the dictatorial power system of the proletariat in Herztier. Using the content analysis method of the narrative situation in Herztier, an overview of the traces of dictatorial power in Romania was obtained through the narrative of the first-person narrator. The narrative of the first-person narrator in Herztier showed that her narrative of the proletarian dictatorship's power system and the suffering of society caused by the practice of the proletarian dictatorship system was obtained from the experience and testimony of the narrator.

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confidence: 99%

Traces of the Power of the Proletariat Dictator in Herta Müller‘s Herztier

Kurniawati¹,

Sudikan²,

Ridwan³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021)

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Poetics and politics of remembering childhood in Romanian post-communist fiction

Mironescu

Mitroiu

2020

Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Triplă marginalizare și identitate transnațională: Herta Müller și exportul traumei de la Est la Vest

Dancu

2024

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Based on Snejana Ung’s statement that „some of the writers included in this category [of ethnic minorities] are also in exile, among them Herta Müller, which points to an even more complicated form of transnationalism, generated by the overlap between the two groups”, I will analyze Herta Müller’s writing from the perspective of World Literature, taking into account the practice of writing about (semi-)peripherality in a language of world circulation. This paper, therefore, seeks to analyze the export of „communist trauma” from the Romanian (semi-)periphery to the center, namely Germany, and its reception in the West. As a case study, I will address the novel Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel, 2009), focusing in particular on the transnational phenomenon that achieved through the denationalization of the protagonist. This paper is structured in three parts: in the first, part I will discuss Müller’s collaboration with the poet Oskar Pastior for the above-mentioned novel, as well as its post-Nobel reception. In the second part, I propose a contextualization of the concept of Heimat as the central topos in Müllerian writing, whereas in the third part I analyze how the novel’s protagonist, Leo Auberg, is an example of triple marginality due to deportation, disjunction with local ethnocentrism, and non-alignment with the heteronormative ideal.

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Life Narratives of the Past: Herta Müller on Communist Romania

Cited by 3 publications

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Traces of the Power of the Proletariat Dictator in Herta Müller‘s Herztier

Traces of the Power of the Proletariat Dictator in Herta Müller‘s Herztier

Poetics and politics of remembering childhood in Romanian post-communist fiction

Triplă marginalizare și identitate transnațională: Herta Müller și exportul traumei de la Est la Vest

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