Anna Seghers : : the challenge of history / / edited by Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero, Amy Kepple Strawser.

• Superior document: German Monitor; volume80
• TeilnehmendeR: Fehervary, Helen,; Romero, Christiane Zehl,; Strawser, Amy Kepple,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: German Monitor; volume80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address facets of Seghers’s large body of work which is characterized by reflections on political events shaping world history and written in a highly imaginative array of narrative styles. The first section focuses on the author’s famous novel The Seventh Cross . Articles in the next two sections analyze her reactions to crises that marked the twentieth century and her connections to other relevant thinkers of her time. The last section features new translations of Seghers’s works.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Note on Translations -- Note on Orthography -- Chronology of Anna Seghers’s Life and Works -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Topographies of Escape, Flight, and Migration in Seghers’s Prose / Helen Fehervary -- Heroes: The Seventh Cross and Seghers’s “Heldenbuch” / Christiane Zehl Romero -- Allusions to the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish-Christian Gospel and Apostolic Narratives in The Seventh Cross / Helen Fehervary -- The Seventh Cross: Dignité humaine and Human Rights / Birgit Maier-Katkin -- The Seventh Cross and Fred Zinnemann’s Cinematic Adaptation / Peter Beicken -- Expressionism in Pictures: Exploring William Sharp’s Comic Adaptation of The Seventh Cross / Kristy Boney -- Netty Reiling’s Student Years at the University of Heidelberg / Christiane Zehl Romero -- Die Gefährten: Poised Aesthetically between Modernism and Lukácsian Socialist Realism and Politically between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin / Katerina Clark -- Narrative Approaches to the Holocaust: A Pivotal Decade in Seghers’s Oeuvre / Helen Fehervary -- The French Connection: Seghers’s Friendships and Work Relationships in and with France / Christiane Zehl Romero -- Seghers’s Efforts to Write about Postwar Germany / Ute Brandes -- Anna Seghers, Walter Janka, Wolfgang Harich, and the Events of 1956 / Stephen Brockmann -- Visual Encounters: Seghers, Kafka, and Benjamin / Peter Beicken -- Notes on Seghers and Adorno: Marxism, Post-Fascism, and the Question of Culture / Hunter Bivens -- “Die herrliche Anna Seghers”: Her Role for Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann / Christiane Zehl Romero -- “… diese unerträgliche Sehnsucht”: Life Journeys and Longing in Reimann, Seghers, and Wolf / Jennifer Marston William -- Heiner Müller’s Three Confessions: Late Letters to His Father, His Grandfather, and His Literary Mother Anna Seghers / Janine Ludwig -- Anna Seghers, The Wayfarers: Chapter One -- Anna Seghers, “Shelter” -- Anna Seghers, “The Reed” -- Back Matter -- Works Index -- General Index.