Uwe Timm.(Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-01

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Uwe Timm. Ed. by David Basker. (Contemporary German Writers) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1999. xi + 148 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling].

Given Uwe Timm's position as one of the most important of contemporary German writers, given too the lack of secondary literature in German and particularly in English on Timm's prose writing, this volume is timely and valuable indeed. It follows the usual Contemporary German Writers Series pattern, comprising a hitherto unpublished piece by Timm himself, an interview with the author, a biographical overview, and a series of articles on Timm's works, in this case by Rhys Williams, David Basker, Keith Bullivant, and Colin Riordan. The volume concludes with an up-to-date bibliography. Timm's work can roughly be divided into novels exploring the aspirations and disappointments of the 1970s German student movement (Heisser Sommer and Kerbels Flucht), novels examining the impact past and present of Western thinking and values on far-away places (thus Morenga is set in German South-West Africa, Der Schlangenbaum in South America, and Kopfjager in Easter...

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