An den Rändern der Literatur. Dokument und Literatur in zentraleuropäischen Kulturen

Tracing the Edges of Literature. Documentary Fiction in Central European Cultures

Contributions by Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó Contributions by Marina Protrka Štimec Contributions by Marijana Hameršak Contributions by Róbert Smid Contributions by Morten Nissen Contributions by Tamás Lénárt Contributions by Ágnes Balajthy Contributions by Ágnes Hansági Contributions by Marijan Bobinac Contributions by Hajnalka Halász Contributions by Zvonimir Glavaš Contributions by Dubravka Zima Contributions by Maša Kolanovic Contributions by Ferenc Vincze Edited by Milka Car Edited by Csongor Lörincz Edited by Danijela Lugarić Edited by Gábor Tamás Molnár

Book cover: An den Rändern der Literatur. Dokument und Literatur in zentraleuropäischen Kulturen

Extent: 277 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(November 2023)

ISBN: 9783205217114

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $69.00

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Zur Pluralität der dokumentarischen Formen in zentraleuropäischen Gegenwartsliteraturen
On the Plurality of Documentary Forms in Central European Contemporary Literatures


The use of documentary is viewed as a gesture of split, as it places literary fiction between factual and fictional claims to truth (Riffaterre, 1990). In other words, the documentary claim to authenticity violates literary structural principles. As a result, the volume’s first premise is the impact of the documentary pact (Foley, 1986) on defining literature. The emphasized referential function of documentary literature results in the constant crossing of the boundary between fact and fiction, which proves unstable and transfigures reality (A. Danto). The second premise is that 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc, and the end of the Cold War, can be viewed as a wide-ranging political caesura that not only encouraged the emergence of new documentary literary practices in Central European literatures, but also repositioned the boundaries between the literary and the documentary.

  • Contributions by Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó
  • Contributions by Marina Protrka Štimec
  • Contributions by Marijana Hameršak
  • Contributions by Róbert Smid
  • Contributions by Morten Nissen
  • Contributions by Tamás Lénárt
  • Contributions by Ágnes Balajthy
  • Contributions by Ágnes Hansági
  • Contributions by Marijan Bobinac
  • Contributions by Hajnalka Halász
  • Contributions by Zvonimir Glavaš
  • Contributions by Dubravka Zima
  • Contributions by Maša Kolanovic
  • Contributions by Ferenc Vincze
  • Edited by Milka Car
  • Edited by Csongor Lörincz
  • Edited by Danijela Lugarić
  • Edited by Gábor Tamás Molnár