The huge waves at sea
The enormous waves at sea (subtitle: Stories from the first half of my country ) is a collection of partly satirical stories by Sarah Kirsch . The stories were written between 1968 and 1972, the volume was published in 1973 by Eulenspiegel-Verlag . The fact that it did not appear in the Aufbau-Verlag , like Kirsch's other books, meant that the censors took the stories less seriously and viewed them as humorous.
Title of the story
- Strange Example of Female Determination (1971)
- The enormous waves at sea (1972)
- Scilla bifolia (1969)
- The blacksmith von Kosewalk (1970)
- The bright street (1968)
- Lightning out of the blue (1972)
- Another Life (1969)
An edition of the Zürcher Manesse Verlag from 1987 also contains the stories Schweinfurter Grün or Wir Privilegierte from 1973 and Jagdzeit from 1975, which could not be published in the GDR, as well as an afterword by Jens Jessen .
style
According to Jessen, Kirsch indirectly criticizes the art doctrine of socialist realism by over-fulfilling its demands and thus showing their absurdity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirsch, Sarah: The enormous waves at sea: Tales from the first half of my country. With an afterword by Jens Jessen. Zurich: Manesse Verlag 1987, pp. 91–100, here p. 92.
- ↑ Kirsch, Sarah: The enormous waves at sea: Tales from the first half of my country. With an afterword by Jens Jessen. Zurich: Manesse Verlag 1987, pp. 91–100, here p. 91.