Lingua Tertii Imperii and Autobiography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article focuses on the Third Reich diaries of the German-Jewish professor of French literature Victor Klemperer. As an epitext (cf. Genette 1992), the diaries show the different production stages of his language-critical study LTI and a commentary of his autobiography Curriculum Vitae. Gérard Genette (1992: 369) understands the diary in general as a „private epitext“, a hermeneutical comment that may offer insightful information and ...