Manuel Ghilarducci
Verbale Aggression im Realsozialismus und ihre Literarisierung
Abstract: This article analyses form, structure and role of verbal aggression in three literary texts: Vladimir Sorokin’s Happy New Year, Marek Hłasko’s The Workers and Kurt Drawert’s Silence. In spite of differences regarding their form, language and cultural context, these three texts share a performative reflection upon verbal aggression in Real Socialism. Not only do they reproduce the politically intended (and latent) aggression of the official discourse, but also individual (and manifest) invectives against the State. The latter are usually interpreted by scholars as attempts to a “liberation” from political oppression, but this is questionable when taking ...
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