THE IMAGE OF REFUGEES IN THE GERMAN LITERATURE OF XVIII AND XX CENTURIES (BASED ON LITERARYWORKS BY J.W. GOETHE AND B. BRECHT)
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Two literary works belonging to different epochs (end of XVIIIth and middle of XXth centuries) are compared in the article. Nevertheless, they have a common topic, namely, forced migration of the protagonists. The article ascertains multiple differences of the interpretation of a refugee’s image in the “Talks of German Refugees”, – a narrative cycle by J.W. Goethe, and “Refugees’ talks” by B. Brecht. The exile of the characters of the framework narrative was of inside-the-country kind, and their representation was outlying the realm of actual problems inherent to forced migration. The major scope of issues causing inconvenience among the refugee characters by Brecht is singled out, among them: the refugee’s legal status, challenge of unemployment, country and world political events analysis. The feeling of homelessness of Brecht’s protagonists is due to the loss of reference points inside the basic psychocultural opposition of “friend and foe”.
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