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Jürek Becker (1937-97) is best known for his novel Jacob the Liar, which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lódz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfiction, and the essays, lectures, and interviews collected in My Father, the Germans and I share a common thread in that they each speak to Becker's interactions with and opinions on the social, political, and cultural conditions of twentieth-century Germany.
Becker, who had lived in both German states and in unified Germany, was passionately and humorously active in the political debates of his time. Becker never directly aligned himself with either the political ideology of East Germany or the capitalist market forces of West Germany. The remains of fascism in postwar Germany, and the demise of Socialism, as well as racism and xenophobic violence, were topics that perpetually interested Becker. However, his writings, as evidenced in this collection, were never pedantic, but always entertaining, retaining the sense of humor that made his novels so admired.
My Father, the Germans and I gives expression to an exceptional author's perception of himself and the world and to his tireless attempt to bring his own unique tone of linguistic brevity, irony, and balance to German relations.
Contents
Foreword
My Way of Being a Jew
Writers East and West
Resistance in Jakob der Lügner
On the Decline of Culture in Our Times
On the Value of Civil Rights
This is Unreliable Information
Marianna D. Birnbaum, University of California, in conversation with Jurek Becker
Is Socialism Over and Done With?
The State of Europe
The Invisible City
It Tales Two to Spy: On the Way We Deal With the GDR Past
On the Tools of Writers
On Germany
The Centipede
It Is Like a Thunderstorm
Herlinde Koelbl in conversation with Jurek Becker
Acknowledgements
Biography
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