Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm belongs to the generation of writers whose early careers were shaped by personal experience of the student movement in the Federal Republic of the late 1960s. Heißer Sommer, Timm's first novel, deals directly with such individual experience of the protests and with a sense of disillusionment which followed. The author's subsequent novels have, among many other topics, focused on the issues of colonialism and the environment, while his shorter prose works give literary expression to his personal 'Ästhetik des Alltags'.

Uwe Timm follows the pattern of earlier volumes in the Contemporary German Writers series. It opens with a previously unpublished prose piece by Timm, followed by an interview that the author gave during his visit to the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at University Wales Swansea. Subsequent critical essays focus on the main areas of Timm's work, including the student novels (Heißer Sommer and Kerbels Flucht), anthropological elements in Timm's work, and an assessment of his shorter prose work in the light of the essays on literary technique contained in Erzählen und kein Ende. The volume concludes with a full bibliography of primary and secondary material.

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Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm belongs to the generation of writers whose early careers were shaped by personal experience of the student movement in the Federal Republic of the late 1960s. Heißer Sommer, Timm's first novel, deals directly with such individual experience of the protests and with a sense of disillusionment which followed. The author's subsequent novels have, among many other topics, focused on the issues of colonialism and the environment, while his shorter prose works give literary expression to his personal 'Ästhetik des Alltags'.

Uwe Timm follows the pattern of earlier volumes in the Contemporary German Writers series. It opens with a previously unpublished prose piece by Timm, followed by an interview that the author gave during his visit to the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at University Wales Swansea. Subsequent critical essays focus on the main areas of Timm's work, including the student novels (Heißer Sommer and Kerbels Flucht), anthropological elements in Timm's work, and an assessment of his shorter prose work in the light of the essays on literary technique contained in Erzählen und kein Ende. The volume concludes with a full bibliography of primary and secondary material.

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Uwe Timm

Uwe Timm

by David Basker
Uwe Timm

Uwe Timm

by David Basker

Overview

Uwe Timm belongs to the generation of writers whose early careers were shaped by personal experience of the student movement in the Federal Republic of the late 1960s. Heißer Sommer, Timm's first novel, deals directly with such individual experience of the protests and with a sense of disillusionment which followed. The author's subsequent novels have, among many other topics, focused on the issues of colonialism and the environment, while his shorter prose works give literary expression to his personal 'Ästhetik des Alltags'.

Uwe Timm follows the pattern of earlier volumes in the Contemporary German Writers series. It opens with a previously unpublished prose piece by Timm, followed by an interview that the author gave during his visit to the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at University Wales Swansea. Subsequent critical essays focus on the main areas of Timm's work, including the student novels (Heißer Sommer and Kerbels Flucht), anthropological elements in Timm's work, and an assessment of his shorter prose work in the light of the essays on literary technique contained in Erzählen und kein Ende. The volume concludes with a full bibliography of primary and secondary material.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780708314470
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Publication date: 04/13/1999
Series: CYMRU-Contemporary German Writers
Edition description: Thumb Indexed ed.
Pages: 148
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

David Basker is Senior Lecturer and Head of German at Swansea University. Other books in the Contemporary German Writers Series written by him include: Sarah Kirsch (1997); Uwe Timm (1998); Hermann Peter Piwitt (2000); Hans-Ulrich Treichel (2004).

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
 
1  Das Nahe, das Ferne: Schreiben über fremde Welten
       Uwe Timm
 
2  Uwe Timm: Literary Career
       David Basker
 
3  'Ein Deklaration gegen Gewalt und Tod': Gespräch mit Uwe Timm
       Colin Riordan
 
4  The Writer as Anthropologist: The Works of Uwe Timm
       Keith Bullivant
 
5  'Uwe Timm oder unsicher in die 70er Jahre': Heißer Sommer and Kerbels Flucht.
       Rhys W. Williams
 
6  'Der Weg in die Zukunft': Uwe Timm and the Problem of Political Ecology
       Colin Riordan
 
7  'Die Wandlung des Alltags in Bedeutung': Social History and 'die Ästhetik des Alltags'
       David Basker
 
8  Bibliography
       David Basker
 
Index
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