German Political History Through the Prism of Hamletianism (On the Novel by A. Doeblin Hamlet)

Svetlana G. Kolpakova*, Alsu A. Khafizova and Alexandra Y. Yusupova
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Svetlana G. Kolpakova*: Kazan Federal University, Russia
Alsu A. Khafizova: Kazan Federal University, Russia
Alexandra Y. Yusupova: Kazan Federal University, Russia

The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018, 363-366 Special Issue: 1

Abstract: Depicting of life has always been object of art. Though, in a number of literary works historic and political events are represented especially critical and specific. German history of the 20th century as well as world history are full of tragic events that changed fates of the states and millions of people. These events through the prism of fictional conscience were reflected in considerable corpus of literary works of the 20th century. The article focuses on the novel by Alfred Doeblin Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende (Tales of a Long Night) and also presents a brief review of German works created before 1980. These concepts shed light on the place of Doeblin’s novel Hamlet among other literary works which address to the theme of war and motive of Hamletianism as well as the tendency of such literal appeals. Of course, literal works that reflect history are still created and recent researches prove that. The peculiar character of the novels considered in the present article is reception of Hamlet’s image for reflecting and comprehending the historic situation of Germany. The aim of the research is to find out how the history of World War II was reflected in the novel by Doeblin Hamlet. To attain the aim comparative method and method of descriptive text analysis were applied.

Keywords: Hamletianism; Alfred doeblin; History in German literature. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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