Hilla: uma nova perspectiva para o romance de formação

Abstract

From the reading of Das verborgene Wort, Aufbruch and Spiel der Zeit, the texts that narrate the life of character Hildegard Palm, we built the hypothesis of analysing them from the perspective of the Bildungsroman. This type of novel falls into a literary gender of fundamental importance for the German literature. On her three novels, the writer Ulla Hahn, born in 1946, in Brachthausen, Western Germany, describes and brings to light the autobiographical nature of the narratives, the elements which constitute her trajectory as a writer. Since her childhood integrating a family with low financial resources and attached to local traditions until her participation in the anti-war student movements in 1968, which were propagated throughout Europe. Hahn describes the growing process of her character as well as the historical episodes within the German context, like the silencing of the post-war period and the economic miracle. The conflict with her family; the abuses and the alienation of the main character's parents and closer relatives to her; the distance from Hildegard to the local dialect and from the strong religious presence that urged her to search for academic formation. The present investigation is constituted by fixation of those elements, mainly in regard to women's "place" in the context presented above, and how the conflict of the language's use, exposed through the opposition between the local dialect and the standard German, represents the protagonist's growing process.