Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Anna Seghers in Perspective
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1998) 117-133
Keywords:
Seghers, Anna,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Discusses Seghers' story, "Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen", written in 1943-44 during her exile in Mexico, and containing autobiographical material. Seghers wrote the story after hearing of her mother's death in a camp near Majdanek. In the story, the narrator's mother, teacher, and fellow pupil, all Jewish, are deported and killed. However, Seghers, a Marxist who disassociated herself from Judaism, views Nazi persecution of the Jews as part of the general persecution of opposition groups in Germany at the time.
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