Generationenkonzepte in zeitgenössischen österreichisch-jüdischen Romanen

The article discusses generational relations in novels by Jewish Austrian authors Doron Rabinovici, Eva Menasse, and Robert Schindel, whose work is profoundly marked by an indirect, mediated approach to their ancestors’ experience of the Holocaust. Taking the shared “postmemorial” perspective of their writing as a starting point, the analysis explores how the concept of generation serves as a frame of reference for structuring both the diachronic intergenerational transmission of history as well as synchronically running processes of intragenerational self-assertion as Jews in a gentile environment.