Ivlieva P.D. —
Authenticity and Historicism in the Novels of Irmtraud Morgner (1970 - 1980).
// Philology: scientific researches. – 2017. – ¹ 3.
– P. 107 - 116.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2017.3.23269
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fmag/article_23269.html
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Abstract: The subject of the study is the authentic works of Irmtraud Morgner, in particular the features of poetics, the style of her works and the ideological focus in the context of German gynocentrical prose of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the historical subtext of the author's novel. The object of the study is the gynocentrical German prose by Irmtraud Morgner ("The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura", "Amanda. A Witch's Tale") as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The author considers in detail such aspects of the topic as woman's emancipation, the protection of human rights and freedoms, military themes, which are reinterpreted and embodied in the text through author's mythologizing and the prism of female consciousness. The focus is on the ideas of the writer, Irmtraud Morgner concerning the consequences of the dominant patriarchal values, which, from her point of view, determined the course and development of history, systematically excluding women from history throughout its course, which led to the disharmonious development of society. Irmtraud Morgner offers her own, female, version of history, in which women are assigned the role of not a passive, homeless, disenfranchised observer, but a demiurge with an active life position and high moral values. A great attention is paid to the principle of historicism, which is directly related to authenticity and is its practical implementation in the works of Irmtraud Morgner. The rethinking of the tragic past, the awareness of German guilt, the confusion of a man in the post-war world, the search for support and love are reflected in the writer's works. The research is interdisciplinary in nature, synthesizing the historical-literary, comparative-typological method of linguistic and textual analysis, as well as psycholinguistics, philology, elements of international relations, political science, and is based on comparison and generalization of the obtained literary data and political and social thought. The novelty of the research consists, firstly, in opportunity to join the discussion about the existence of woman's prose as an independent literary phenomenon, as well as the genre of the gynocentrical novel and the terms of the poetics of the works of this trend of modern European, including German prose. Secondly, there are no studies in Russian literary criticism that would contain a comprehensive analysis of the work of Irmtraud Morgner in the context of German gynocentrical prose. One of the main conclusions of the study is the fact that the work of Irmtraud Morgner is a sample of gyinocentrical literature and a unique example of East German magical realism, whose task is to find reality in the magical. By reality the author means history and historical events. Thus, the novels of Irmtraud Morgner reflect the rejection of the existing reality along with the problems of the eternal confrontation between the gender and the social injustice of women who are brought to the forefront and received profound philosophical interpretation.