Nordic topographies in contemporary German literature: Klaus Boldl's studie in Kristallbildung and Sudlich von Abisko

• Main Author: M. Paleari
• Other Authors: A. Meregalli, C. Storskog
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Ledizioni 2016
• Subjects: letteratura tedesca contemporanea; rappresentazione del paesaggio; Settore L-LIN/13 - Letteratura Tedesca; Abisko; Klaus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/443396; https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/disegni/issue/view/1048

Klaus Böldl’s prose works explore the Scandinavian North offering a narrative construction of a remote, lonely and forlorn place, which cannot produce any empathy. The persons moving in his writings are displaced figures, German “travellers” whose perception of the Nordic reality can produce only fr...