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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Réflexions Sur La Question Juive (1946) as Blueprint for Grass’s Jewish Figures: From Hundejahre (1963) to Im Krebsgang (2002)
Julian Preece 
Oxford German Studies, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 391 - 403
Swansea University Author:
Julian Preece
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/00787191.2019.1664171
Abstract
Grass’s depiction of Jewish characters becomes more abstract after Die Blechtrommel, corresponding in fact with schema outlined by Sartre in a key essay on anti-Semitism and constructions of Jewishness, which was re-issued in German translation in 1960. The possible influence of Sartre’s thought on...
| Published in: | Oxford German Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0078-7191 1745-9214 |
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Informa UK Limited
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52598 |
| Abstract: |
Grass’s depiction of Jewish characters becomes more abstract after Die Blechtrommel, corresponding in fact with schema outlined by Sartre in a key essay on anti-Semitism and constructions of Jewishness, which was re-issued in German translation in 1960. The possible influence of Sartre’s thought on Grass may have been overlooked in research because Grass championed Camus at Sartre’s expense, presenting the pair as opposite types. Arguably, Grass did this for strategic reasons as he first reacted against his senior French counterpart and they played similar public roles in their respective countries up to Sartre’s death in 1980. Both visited Israel, for example, for the first time in March 1967. In Grass’s fiction, Albrecht and Eddi Amsel in Hundejahre, Hermann Ott in Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke, the rats in Die Rättin, and Wolfgang Stremplin in Im Krebsgang can all be understood in terms presented and popularized by Sartre |
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| Keywords: |
anti-Semitism, inauthentic Jew, constructions of Jewishness, Franco-German literary relations, translation |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |
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391 |
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403 |