TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berendse,Gerrit-Jan
TI  - Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990 
SN  - 9781800730687
AV  - PT3710.S87 
U1  - 830.9/116309431 23/eng
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - German literature
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Surrealism (Literature)
KW  - Surrealism in mass media
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - aesthetic practices
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - art history
KW  - art
KW  - artists
KW  - avant garde
KW  - berlin
KW  - career
KW  - communist party jargon
KW  - communist party
KW  - communist
KW  - diplomacy
KW  - east german culture
KW  - east germany
KW  - engaging
KW  - europe
KW  - gdr
KW  - german culture
KW  - german literature
KW  - germany
KW  - historical
KW  - history
KW  - individual artists
KW  - individual authors
KW  - literary criticism
KW  - musicians
KW  - page turner
KW  - paintings
KW  - poetry and poets
KW  - politics
KW  - rigid government
KW  - social science
KW  - surreal aspect
KW  - surreal
KW  - surrealist techniques
KW  - visual artists
KW  - writers
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations, Definitions and Translations --; Introduction. The Surreal without Surrealism --; Chapter 1. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Post-war Germany --; Chapter 2. Return of the Avant-Garde? Brecht & Co. in the GDR --; Chapter 3. ‘1968’ in the GDR: Franz Kafka and the Prague Spring --; Chapter 4. Flirting with the Enemy: The Absurd and Grotesque in 1960s Poetry --; Chapter 5. The GDR’s Surrealist Nerve Centre: Adolf Endler’s Strange Nebbich World --; Chapter 6. Wolfgang Hilbig’s Landscapes ‘Where the Minotaurs Graze --; Chapter 7. ‘Flip-out-Elke’: Elke Erb’s Surrealistic Poetry --; Chapter 8. Gabriele Stötzer under Surveillance: Feminism and the Avant-Garde --; Chapter 9. East German Advocates of Surrealism --; Conclusion. ‘Max Ernst Was Here!’ --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused literature and art across the lifespan of the GDR, focusing on individual authors, visual artists, directors, musicians, and other figures who have employed surrealist techniques in their work. It provides a new framework for understanding East German culture, exploring aesthetic practices that offered an alternative to rigid government policies and questioned and confronted the status quo
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730694?locatt=mode:legacy
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