Journeys of remembrance : memories of the Second World War in French and German literature, 1960-1980 / Kathryn N. Jones.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cardiff University, 2003) presented under the title: Journeys into the world with the baggage of the past: representations of travel and memory in 1960s and 1970s French and German language literature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.

Remembering the war years in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic from the late 1950s to 1980 -- "A new mode of travel" : representations of deportation in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après and Jorge Semprun's Le grand voyage -- Visiting the camps in 1960s and 1970s travelogues by Horst Krüger, Günter Kunert, Rolf Schneider, and Peter Weiss -- Fictional representation of the Holocaust in H.G. Adler's Eine Reise and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance -- Conversations with the father in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel, Bernward Vesper's Die Reise, and Patrick Modiano's Les Boulevards de ceinture -- German origins and exile : Évelyne Le Garrec's La rive allemande de ma mémoire and Maren Sell's Mourir d'absence.