Constructs of Desire: Selections from Brigitte Kronauer
Jutta Ittner (Ed.)
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2009 Brigitte Kronauer's work prompted a leading German literary critic to call her "the greatest German [female] fiction writer of our time." Kronauer's many novels, stories, and literary essay are impassioned yet unsentimental observations of human desires and the endeavor to experience reality beyond the constructs of the mind. Fortunately, her multi-layered novels lend themselves beautifully to the selective approach employed in this anthology, each individual passage balancing and interpreting the others. These selections also illustrate Kronauer's literary development from an associative, highly structured early prose to the more chronologically narrated novels that the author herself sees not as a return to traditional storytelling but rather as a step in a new direction. |
About the editor:
A native of Munich, Germany, Jutta Ittner received her MA in Classical German Literature, Modern German Literature, and English Literature from Ludwig-Maxmilians University in Munich and her PhD in Modern German Literature from Hamburg University (1994). Since 1992 she has taught German language, literature, and culture in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Her areas of research include exile studies and contemporary German literature, particularly writing by women. Her current project is a study of animal consciousness in contemporary literature.
