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The Interim

Wolfgang Hilbig · 2000 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A writer from the East German provinces, given a visa to the West in the 1980s, drinks and drifts between two countries without belonging to either. Largely autobiographical, it is the late summation of Hilbig's account of a poet formed in the GDR who finds no home after it.

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Attributes

Genre
PsychologicalPolitical
Theme
Isolation & AlienationExile & HomecomingIdentity & SelfIndividual vs SocietyArt & Creation
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Wanderer
Plot type
Exile and Return
Form
Nonlinear / Fractured
Symbol / motif
The TrainThe City
Conflict
vs Societyvs Self
Mode / tone
RealistIronic
Culture / tradition
German

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