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We Are Doing Fine

Arno Geiger · 2005 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

In 2001 Philipp Erlach clears out the Viennese villa of his dead grandparents and, through chapters running backward, the novel recovers three generations of the family from the Anschluss onward. The war, the economic recovery and the family's silences are told through domestic scenes. It won the first Deutscher Buchpreis.

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Attributes

Genre
Historical
Theme
Memory & TimeClass & InequalityDuty & HonorLoss of InnocenceTradition
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Everyman
Plot type
Generational Saga
Form
Nonlinear / Fractured
Symbol / motif
The HouseThe Estate
Conflict
vs Society
Mode / tone
RealistIronic
Culture / tradition
German

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