Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Jan 2004)

The Desire to Achieve "Normalcy" - Peter Schneider's Post-Wall Berlin Novel Eduard's Homecoming

  • Siegfried Mews

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1576
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 1

Abstract

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As one critic correctly observed on the occasion of Peter Schneider's sixtieth birthday (21 April 2000), the author's life and work have been defined by two momentous events whose import far surpasses that of happenings of merely local significance (see Karasek)...