Niederungen by Herta Müller: a critical approach to the scars of an unbreathable childhood
Through the look and narrative voice of a Romanian girl, the writer Herta Müller brings us closer with her first work – Niederungen (En tierras bajas) - to the still living scars of her own childhood in a small village in the region of Timisoara at the time of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Revista de Filología Románica |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFRM/article/view/55286 |
| Summary: | Through the look and narrative voice of a Romanian girl, the writer Herta Müller brings us closer with her first work – Niederungen (En tierras bajas) - to the still living scars of her own childhood in a small village in the region of Timisoara at the time of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. This article attempts a critical approach to the recurring theme focused on the complaint of the country left behind by the author after her own experience of exile to West Germany in 1987. A critical analysis of this first work written by Müller in the German language brings us closer to her intercultural literature. The high quality of the literary production of this German-Romanian migrant writer was finally awarded in 2009 with the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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| ISSN: | 0212-999X 1988-2815 |