Background
Fickert, Kurt Jon was born on December 19, 1920 in Pausa, Saxony, Germany. Came to the United States, 1926. Son of Kurt Alfred and Martha Elsa (Searchinger) Fickert.
(Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) is the author of Jahrestage, a fo...)
Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) is the author of Jahrestage, a four-volume novel, which Die Zeit has placed on its list of the one hundred great books in world literature. He has been called «the author of the two Germanies» because in his books Mutmassungen über Jakob, Das dritte Buch über Achim, and Zwei Ansichten he gives an unprejudiced view of life on both sides of the border. This study explores the basic theme in Johnson's work, the confrontation between the individual who needs to maintain the integrity of his selfhood and the sociopolitical circumstances surrounding the individual which demand conformity to their particular standards, a theme of significance not only for Germany but for all countries in this century and, without doubt, the next.
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(In this critical overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, one...)
In this critical overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, one of the most notable of Germany's post-World War II authors, Kurt Fickert concentrates on Johnson's intention to involve his readers in the structuring of his texts. He shows how in Das Dritte Buch über Achim, Johnson's second published novel, the author creates a readership who appear in the story by way of questions that Johnson suggests they would have asked had they had access to his manuscript, while in Mutmaungenüber Jakob, an earlier work, the reader is required to piece together various narrative segments, presented as dialogue, monologue, and the report of an objective narrator; Johnson's magnum opus, Jahrestage, features a narrator who literally works together with the protagonist. Arguing that Johnson is influenced strongly by writers such as Dos Passos and Hemingway, Fickert provides new vistas on the work of an author as innovative as Joyce.
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Fickert, Kurt Jon was born on December 19, 1920 in Pausa, Saxony, Germany. Came to the United States, 1926. Son of Kurt Alfred and Martha Elsa (Searchinger) Fickert.
AB, Hofstra University, 1941. Master of Arts, New York University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1952.
Instructor, then assistant professor, Hofstra U., Hempstead, New York, 1948-1953; assistant professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1953-1954; assistant professor, Kansas State University, Fort Hays, 1954-1956; associate professor, then professor, Wittenberg U., Springfield, Ohio., 1956-1986; retired, Wittenberg U., Springfield, Ohio., 1986. Chairperson department languages Wittenberg U., 1969-1975.
(In this critical overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, one...)
(Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) is the author of Jahrestage, a fo...)
Married Madlyn Barbara Janda, August 6, 1946. Children: Linda Mosbacher, Jon, Chris.