Herta Müller en el exilio, la garra en el corazón

Herta Müller in exile, the claw in the heart

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.24939

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exile, language and homeland, writing and memory, totalitarian city

Abstract

This article aims to show that Herta Müller's life is depicted as one of perpetual uprooting and to portrait elements in her novels where the writer deals with major universal themes, connected to the topic of exile and fundamental to understanding the turbulent 20th century in Europe. Her denunciation of the horrors of totalitarianism, against which she opposes a cry for freedom and against oblivion, stands out for its capacity for reflection, its originality and its poetic sensitivity, in such a way that it manages to traverse this arid terrain with original images of great beauty.

Author Biography

Ines Carvajal Arguelles, Complutense University of Madrid

Inés Carvajal Argüelles has a BA in Hispanic Philology and an MA in literary studies with a paper on the city of Bucharest as expressed in the work of Mihail Sebastian. She is currently doing a PhD on interwar Bucharest as a source of literary inspiration in the work of Mircea Eliade, Olivia Manning and Gregor von Rezzori. She has published articles on Herta Müller in the books: La ciudad sin atributos (2020) and La aventura de viajar y sus representaciones literarias y artísticas (2019), on Cella Sergui in Mujeres en la ciudad: Representaciones literarias y artísticas (2022), on Emily Gerard and British women travel writers in the Balkans in Las mujeres y sus relatos de viajes: Viajeras de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI (2023). She has also co-edited the book La ciudad sin atributos (2020).

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2023-05-15

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Carvajal Arguelles, I. (2023). Herta Müller en el exilio, la garra en el corazón: Herta Müller in exile, the claw in the heart. Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 6(1), 323–340. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.24939

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023): Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies

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Research Seminars

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