Carousel: Erwin, Elvira, Armin, Fassbinder, and All the Others' Auto/biographies

I read Fassbinder's short story, film script, and the film In a Year of Thirteen Moons itself as a bi-level, intertextual web—an autobiography of Fassbinder's "failed" homosexuality, and a biography of a generation of Germans growing up in the post-World War 2 West Germany to which Fassbinder belonged.