Generazioni. Memoria, identità e scrittura in Grete Weil

• Autores: Marco Castellari
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: NUMERO SPECIALE Letteratura Ebraica "al femminile"), págs. 131-143
• Idioma: italiano
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  • After a brief discussion of Grete Weil�s liminal position in the context of Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Women�s Literature, the present contribution outlines the key issues of her prose works between 1949 and 1999 and focuses then on her third novel, Generations (1983). As a matter of fact, this often neglected work proves to be a metafiction exploring the possibilities, frustrations and success of German-Jewish Women�s writing in post-war West Germany. Thus, a new interpretation of this audacious novel is put forward. Whereas both the deconstruction of cultural taboos and the construction of a dialogue between three generations of women fail in the fictional �experiment�, they are actually achieved in the literary act of writing.