From Carpathian Stains and Lines: The Literary Perspectives of Thomas Perle and Iris Wolff on Historical Narratives

• In Event: The Modern Carpathians: Local Borderland and Colonial Space

Abstract

The paper aims to analyse the Carpathians as literary scenery in selected works of Iris Wolff and Thomas Perle. The authors, who have been awarded several important literary prizes, reproduce and vary a wide variety of Carpathian discourses and illustrate how historical narratives can be overwritten by new perspectives such as ecocriticism. While confronting divergent discourses on the colonization of Central Europe or on the continuous migration processes in the region, the Carpathians advance from plot scenery to being a symbol for a generation that has long left the mountains.

Author

• Enikő Dácz, Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich (Germany)