A "Better Reality": The Enlightenment Legacy in Erich Kastner's: Novels for Young People
1991; Wiley; Volume: 64; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/406667
ISSN1756-1183
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoErich Klistner (1899-1974) is credited with revising standards of writing literature for young people in Germany. His popularity helped to reverse trends of the repressive reward-and-punish didacticism and the pious edification born out of nineteenth-century juvenile literature. The history of German children's literature also recognizes KMistner's for young people as paradigmatically modern; urbanity, poverty, rationalization through technology and administration, and contemporary settings all resound in the sober observations and engaging wit of his narratives. Because of the contemporaneity in his work, Klistner is regarded as the father of a new realism in young people's books.3 He prefaced his three early milieu novels with assertions that his characters spoke and acted as young people do, they lived in present-day Germany, and they were not spared the troubles that young people suffer in real life.
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