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From East Berlin to Hollywood: Literary Resistance in Jurek Becker's "Jakob Der Lügner" Author(s): Jennifer Bjornstad Source: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 56-66 Published by: Midwest Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20464250 .
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emphases,
its
kind
of
liter
ary
resistance.
s
a
Holocaust
survivor,
henarrator
inds
f
resistive ove.
wield not only over its survivors, ut also over its
perpetrators
film
criptrather
remarkably uccessful novel thatwas
languages, nd
earned theHeinrich
Mann prize
novel
is not a listener
this transformation
from ero to antihero as key:"Now that, thought, as a good idea for
story" Lewis 103).
in
resist
ance
in
these
literary
nd
cinematic
works
was
central
to
the
Communist
is
own
imagination
happened
in
through
n
his
a
pair
of
pliers
into
his
pocket,
and
attempts
his
escape.Whether
Jakob
leaves
to
friends nd neighbors,
will not
native
ending
thatmakes
one
inclined
to
ask
resistance vailable to
can do is
straightforward
tate
he
declares
that
there
possible outcome of
centrally
oncerned
spoil everything,with which I
on one or
the
film
er
hiding spot forthe day, nd walks down thehallway,the action is briefly
interruptedy a seriesof three ntertitlecreens:
"The tale
"Honest."
the
story
lies, truth,
in
notably,
he
Peter
Kassovitz's
1999
adaptation
maybe
He
from he
engine clears,
in
furs. s she continues to stare
in
film
nds.
and critics.
467).
Annlee
Ellingson
ofBox
office.com ays: "The potentially incere nding is negated by another ie,
giving the film boxofficefriendly eeling f hope but lessening its dra
matic intensity."oger Ebert
look like."
is implausible. bert seems to have forgottenhatthewhole story, nclud
ing this second ending, s a narrated ne,whichmeans that theband is a
product
in
by
the
ears."
Again,
if
possibilities,
n
the
of
nabled such
reflection o pull
thisother reality
asserts the resistive
story,
nd
the
to
a
radio
in
the
ghetto
Berlin:
Erich
Schmidt,
2006.
85-106.
Ellingson,
Annlee.
"Jakob
the
Liar."
Boxoffice.com.
007.
Boxoffice.
25
Sept.
2007
<http://www.boxoffice.com/moviedetail.aspx?movieid=
1701
Berlin
to
Hollywood
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From East Berlin to Hollywood: Literary Resistance in Jurek Becker's "Jakob Der Lügner" Author(s): Jennifer Bjornstad Source: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 56-66 Published by: Midwest Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20464250 .
Accessed: 13/11/2014 20:37
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Midwest Modern Language Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
http://www.jstor.org
emphases,
its
kind
of
liter
ary
resistance.
s
a
Holocaust
survivor,
henarrator
inds
f
resistive ove.
wield not only over its survivors, ut also over its
perpetrators
film
criptrather
remarkably uccessful novel thatwas
languages, nd
earned theHeinrich
Mann prize
novel
is not a listener
this transformation
from ero to antihero as key:"Now that, thought, as a good idea for
story" Lewis 103).
in
resist
ance
in
these
literary
nd
cinematic
works
was
central
to
the
Communist
is
own
imagination
happened
in
through
n
his
a
pair
of
pliers
into
his
pocket,
and
attempts
his
escape.Whether
Jakob
leaves
to
friends nd neighbors,
will not
native
ending
thatmakes
one
inclined
to
ask
resistance vailable to
can do is
straightforward
tate
he
declares
that
there
possible outcome of
centrally
oncerned
spoil everything,with which I
on one or
the
film
er
hiding spot forthe day, nd walks down thehallway,the action is briefly
interruptedy a seriesof three ntertitlecreens:
"The tale
"Honest."
the
story
lies, truth,
in
notably,
he
Peter
Kassovitz's
1999
adaptation
maybe
He
from he
engine clears,
in
furs. s she continues to stare
in
film
nds.
and critics.
467).
Annlee
Ellingson
ofBox
office.com ays: "The potentially incere nding is negated by another ie,
giving the film boxofficefriendly eeling f hope but lessening its dra
matic intensity."oger Ebert
look like."
is implausible. bert seems to have forgottenhatthewhole story, nclud
ing this second ending, s a narrated ne,whichmeans that theband is a
product
in
by
the
ears."
Again,
if
possibilities,
n
the
of
nabled such
reflection o pull
thisother reality
asserts the resistive
story,
nd
the
to
a
radio
in
the
ghetto
Berlin:
Erich
Schmidt,
2006.
85-106.
Ellingson,
Annlee.
"Jakob
the
Liar."
Boxoffice.com.
007.
Boxoffice.
25
Sept.
2007
<http://www.boxoffice.com/moviedetail.aspx?movieid=
1701
Berlin
to
Hollywood
This content downloaded from 131.104.195.125 on Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:37:04 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions