“Historically Accurate Inventions”! Fiction and Factuality in Ursula Ackrill’s novel “Zeiden im Januar”
Born in Braşov in 1974, the novelist Ursula Ackrill has graduated her studies in Romanian “Andrei Şaguna” Highschool in Sibiu, Romanian Orthodox Theology and German Studies at the University in Bucharest- lives in the United Kingdom where she has obtained in 2003 a PhD in philology from the University of Leicester with a thesis on Christa Wolf. She debuted with the novel Zeiden, im Januar [Codlea in January] in 2015, while being in the same year on the Shortlist Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. The theme of the novel is the relationship of the German community in Romania with the German Nazi party, but also refers to the two extremist currents present in Romania in the interwar period: Erneuerungsbewegung (Renewal Movement) and the Legionary Movement. The present article focuses on the analysis of the novel in terms of the fictional and factual; and in my opinion, we have a type of postmodern narrative, the best concept describing it being metahistoriographical fictionality.
Key words: Ursula, Ackrill, Renewal Movement, Legionary Movement, fictionality, factuality, metahistoriographical fictionality.
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