Word: trummerliteratur
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...interest for generations who have only briefly confronted the question in a classroom. There is no overriding human interest to support Ionesco's theme except on a purely historical level, and although history has universal appeal, Ionesco's themes are tortured by the spirit of what the Germans call "Trummerliteratur," or "The Literature of Ruins." The subject is specific and dated, the tone relentlessly grim and the dialogue turgid and frenetic, desperately trying to solve a psychological puzzle that perhaps has no answer...
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