Ingo Schulze, Neue Leben: Die Jugend Enrico Türmers in Briefen und Prosa. Herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit einem Vorwort versehen von Ingo Schulze [New Lives: The Youth of Enrico Türmer in Letters and Prose. Edited and with Commentary and Foreword by Ingo Schulze]

Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 2005

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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Neue Leben

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New Lives

, 2005) by the eastern German author Ingo Schulze (b. 1962) is a satirical epistolary novel consisting of 657 pages of autobiographical letters, all written by a fictional male protagonist, with 130 pages of short stories and a novella by the same man appended. The letters are addressed in rotation to the protagonist’s older sister, his best friend from school, and a western German photographer, with whom he fell in love after working with her on a newspaper he founded after the 1989 revolution. The author Schulze introduces the novel with his fictional alter ego, a literary persona and editor of the letters also named Ingo Schulze, who deconstructs the protagonist in a Preface and 376 editorial footnotes by pointing out inconsistencies, falsehoods, and missing…

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Citation: Twark, Jill E.. "Neue Leben: Die Jugend Enrico Türmers in Briefen und Prosa. Herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit einem Vorwort versehen von Ingo Schulze". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 August 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25877, accessed 22 November 2024.]

Ingo Schulze, Neue Leben: Die Jugend Enrico Türmers in Briefen und Prosa. Herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit einem Vorwort versehen von Ingo Schulze [New Lives: The Youth of Enrico Türmer in Letters and Prose. Edited and with Commentary and Foreword by Ingo Schulze]

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