Introduction: in defense of melancholy
The diseased imagination: perpetrator melancholy in Gunter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Hauten der Zwiebel
The disenchanted mind: victim melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante
The feminine Holocaust: gender, melancholy, and memory in Peter Weiss's Die Asthetik des Widerstands
From the Weltschmerz of the postwar penitent to capitalism and the "racial century": melancholy diversity in W. G. Sebald's work
Epilogue: death of the male melancholy genius: from Vergangenheitsbewaltigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche.
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Born under Auschwitz : melancholy traditions in postwar German literature by Mary Cosgrove. ISBN 9781571135568. Published by Camden House in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
