Heffernan, Valerie (2010) Swimming Against the Current? Rolf Lappert’s Nach Hause schwimmen. FIGURATIONEN: GENDER-LITERATUR-KULTUR 1, 11 (1). pp. 113-128. ISSN 2194-363X
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Abstract
Rolf Lappert’s 2007 novel Nach Hause schwimmen [Swimming Home], seems on the surface to be anything but a Swiss novel. Set in part in rural Ireland and in part in the United States and with a brief interlude in Sweden, it tells the story of „Will McDermott, alias Wilbur Sandberg, verhinderter Selbstmörder mit partiellem Gedächtnisverlust, zwanghafter Trinkhalmbenutzer und traumatageschädigter Nichtschwimmer“.1 Wilbur’s story has a wider resonance, as indicated by Anja Hirsch, who proclaims: „,Nach Hause schwimmen‘ ist nicht nur Wilburs Geschichte, sondern Familien-, Irland-, Amerika-Roman.“2 Lappert’s novel draws on established images of Ireland and America and on cultural representations of the sea and uses these as a springboard to explore issues of belonging and separation, integration and exclusion.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Rolf Lappert; Nach Hause schwimmen; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > German |
Item ID: | 4260 |
Depositing User: | Valerie Heffernan |
Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2013 09:49 |
Journal or Publication Title: | FIGURATIONEN: GENDER-LITERATUR-KULTUR 1 |
Publisher: | Böhlau |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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