Die Kinder der Toten
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Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Die Kinder der Toten canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
experimental literature
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horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector |
Kelly Copper
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Pavol Liska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| addresses |
Austrian complicity in Nazism
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suppression of historical guilt ⓘ |
| author | Elfriede Jelinek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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horror ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Die Kinder der Toten (2017 film project) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Edgar
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Gerti NERFINISHED ⓘ Gudrun Bichler NERFINISHED ⓘ Karin Frenzel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Austrian postwar history
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Holocaust literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Austria's repressed Nazi past
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Austrian national identity ⓘ Holocaust memory ⓘ guilt and repression ⓘ haunting and the undead ⓘ |
| motif |
apocalypse
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nature catastrophe ⓘ resurrected dead ⓘ zombies ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
fragmented
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polyphonic ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
grotesque imagery
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intertextuality ⓘ metafiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex narrative structure
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linguistic excess ⓘ radical formal experimentation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| pageCount | over 600 ⓘ |
| partTitle |
Die Kinder
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Die Kinder der Toten NERFINISHED ⓘ Die Toten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher | Rowohlt Verlag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Austrian Alps
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Styria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | three-part novel ⓘ |
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