Viaggi sui percorsi della storia: Das Vaterspiel di Josef Haslinger e Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle di Robert Menasse

SERRA, VALENTINA

2005-01-01

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Abstract

The Austrian literature of recent years is characterized by a persistent reflection on the Nazi past, and clearly shows the need to understand and overcome the painful past of the Thirties and Forties - which only with great difficulties can be found expressed in other ways. Recent Austrian literature has tried to present the historical past in a critical, sarcastic and sometimes metaphorical way, as the works of two of the major novels of Robert Menasse and Joseph Haslinger clearly show. In this essay, the author analyzes the theme of the journey, a necessary or random chance to think about identity and the present problems of fictional characters, which represent, at the same time, the problems deriving from the painful history of the Austrian nation.