The Wall is still standing, or: encounters on the borderland. People, stories and conflicts in Unterleuten (2016) by Juli Zeh

Authors

  • Aneta Jurzysta University of Rzeszów

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15584/tik.2017.25

Keywords:

borderland, conflicts, history, revenge

Abstract

The article is devoted to Juli Zeh’s novel Unterleuten, which explores what happens in a small village outside of Berlin, when an energy company arrives with plans to develop a wind farm. Brutality surfaces in many forms, from harassment and deliberate cruelty to perverse acts of revenge. Two old men, a successful agribusiness man and a displaced comrade from the former GDR farming collective, reengage in past conflicts, and their twenty-year-long feud grows into a prime source of vicious ill feeling. The structure of the novel is like a literary kaleidoscope: Unterleuten is a place between past and present, east and west, city and province, civilisation and tradition, reality and fiction, true and false, winners and losers.

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Published

2017-12-16

How to Cite

Jurzysta, A. (2017). The Wall is still standing, or: encounters on the borderland. People, stories and conflicts in Unterleuten (2016) by Juli Zeh. Tematy I Konteksty, 12(7), 386–401. https://doi.org/10.15584/tik.2017.25