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Austria as Murder Scene. Wolf Haas' Crime Novels in Context of "Anti-Heimatliteratur"
HRŮZOVÁ, Kateřina
The main motif of this diploma thesis is the social criticism in the chosen novels of the Austrian author Wolf Haas. Because of his critical point of view to the Austrian society subsists the main focus of this diploma thesis not only on the description of the specific genre of the Austrian criminal literature, but also on the enlistment to the Anti-Heimatliteratur. The first part of this thesis reports about this significant post-war literature movement as well as it briefly defines the genre of detective fiction. The chapters of the analytic part are dedicated to the various novels and thank the concrete quotations it is pointed to the criticism of the Austrian society and generally to the social problems, too. This thesis pays attention to the characters of the detective Brenner and the narrator, who are the concrete representatives of the novels and they become the main critics of the Austrian society even if they actually belong to it, too.

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