Meticulous analysis of works by Rolf Hochhuth ("Die Berliner Antigone"), Günter Kunert ("Ikarus 64"), Volker Braun ("Iphigenie in Freiheit"), Botho Strauß ("Ithaka. Schauspiel nach den Heimkehr-Gesängen der Odyssee") and Friedrich Dürrenmatt ("Minotaurus. Eine Ballade") provide the basis for an inquiry into the problems of the reception of mythology in post-modernism and issues pertaining to unity, continuity and identity in modern-day German literature from east and west.
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