Chugunov Dmitry Alexandrovich – DSc in Philology, Professor Department of the History and Typology of Russian and Foreign Literature, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia, ORCID: 0000-0001-6368-3628
The situation in the German culture in the 1990s brought to life not only works devoted to the difficult spiritual circumstances of the era of change, but also books turned to the East German past. Next to the official history, was a “living poetry of memories” (St. Wolle). In this regard, the anthropological approach to the study of a literary work has undoubted practical value for building a general literary history of East Germany after 1945. Retrospective immersion in a certain epoch, performed through the combined knowledge of the image of a person of that time and the essential characteristics of his being, allows us to come to a holistic vision of what is happening. The article examines the works of E. Neutsch and Chr. Wolf, which became iconic in German literature after 1945 and are embedded in the context of the myth of a “new” man building a new society on German soil. At the same time, the vital truthfulness of this image was often questioned (for example, by E. Loest). The anthropological dispute about the “man” of the GDR became one of the parts of the culture of memory in the post-revolution era and was reflected in the books of young authors who entered literature at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries.
artistic anthropology; literature of the GDR; literature of Germany.
Download textFor citing: Chugunov D.A. On the the construction of the artistic anthropology of the GDR. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 3(59). Р. 184-199. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2024.03.12