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Part of the book: The Ethics of Narration

Colin Riordan

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 28

Bithell Series of Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  The summer of 1947 saw Gesine's first deliberate attempt to reconstruct the past, and so her first recognition of the associated problems. The description of that attempt is in effect a reconstruction of a reconstruction, but provides a number of insights into the creative process which Gesine later felt herself compelled to enter on. She naïvely seeks not just memories, but what might be termed authentic memory; experience in fully the same broad, vibrant, yet intelligible terms as it was originally perceived.

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