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It is well known that the media has strongly shaped the life of the people in many respects and that it exerts a sustained influence on our value systems and ways of thinking. Thus it also shows a clear extension of the human life. By far less famously however is the fact that nowadays media is the basis for all forms of mental development. This is why the relation between the people and the media is extremely tightened. Nevertheless, this ambivalent relation offers multi-complex material for the literary inspiration. Addressing the topic of the media in the literature combines two aspects ritically: On the one hand it reflects the human behaviour compared with the media and, on the other hand, it underlines emphatically the intermedial writing itself. My speech will be dedicated to the question: how these both aspects interact with each other. The narrative text of Alfred Andersch’s Erinnerte Gestalten will serve the answers to my topic. In this three prosaic texts Andersch shows the subject of the intermedial writing from different perspectives and he discusses certain human reactions to the media.
„[I]m Fegefeuer von Diktaturen“. Die Darstellung arabischer Diktaturen im Prosawerk von Abbas Khider
(2014)
This article deals with the works of the Iraqi writer Abbas Khider who lives in Germany. His works revolve around a major topic, namely, the life of the ordinary Arab citizen under dictatorship. In all Arab countries, dictatorship has been able to set up and update a new cultural fashion based on oppression and persecution, looking man down and depriving him of his freedom.
Our writer has suffered so much from dictatorship which pushed him to live in delinquency from one country to the other. Building on this, the article is attempting through linking the author’s autobiography to the major events and characters of his works to point to the nature of the Arab dictatorship dominating in the Arab world before the Arab Spring which would contribute to understanding the works of Khider and identify their real content.
