Literary Détente
Wolfgang Koeppen's Cold War Travels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4071328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus R Scherpe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-106 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-2010-006 |
| OpenAlex | W2097041990 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 1 |
At the very height of the Cold War, Wolfgang Koeppen reported on the political pecularities and abnormalities he encountered on his travels in the United States and the Soviet Union. Koeppen's texts perform a fascinating rewriting of the sentimental journey, choosing the descriptive mode of the generally underestimated travelogue over the novel's narrative mode. This choice generates a particular “design of the concrete,” whereby highly personal impressions and isolated facts and things emerge as interesting in themselves. Koeppen attempts to banish the “dangerous chimera” of the iron curtain in his focus on the “collective hallucinations” from which “hot” wars repeatedly emerge
Aesthetics · Art · Cold war · Iron Curtain · Literature · Mode (computer interface) · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Rewriting · Soviet union · Computer Science · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |