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- Title
Življenje kot estetska izkušnja v literarnih delih Erice Pedretti.
- Authors
Horvat, Vesna Kondrič
- Abstract
In today's global world, it is worth exploring how authors with migrant backgrounds tackle the challenges of modern society, since they not only describe different cultures but also offer lived transcultural experience. Often such authors layer distinct cultures one over another, and their literature can often be called autobiographical. There have been only a few authors whose literary works have skirted the edges of their biographies and nevertheless succeeded in distancing themselves from their lives so that their biographies on paper became convincing fiction. This holds for the Swiss author, actually a Sudeten German, Erica Pedretti, who was famous for her experiments with language, for which she received the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 1984 as well as the international Vilenica prize in 1999. The paper describes the literary works of this author--who was also famous for her paintings and sculpture-- beginning with a very small book Harmloses, bitte in 1970, and ending with her last novel, Das Kuckuckskind oder Was ich ihr unbedingt noch sagen wollte from 1998, as well as the small booklet fremd genug from 2010, and the notes in which she tried to record her own experiences, transforming them into aesthetics while primarily challenging behavioral norms.
- Subjects
PEDRETTI, Erica; LITERARY aesthetics; CROSS-cultural studies; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; LITERARY prizes
- Publication
Comparative Literature / Primerjalna Književnost, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
0351-1189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3986/pkn.v46.i2.04