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Seghers
Anna Segherss's memoir "The Outing of the Dead Schoolgirls" begins in Mexico, where the author reminisces about a defining incident in her life. Her memory is triggered by two symbols, the first of which is an innkeeper who was "staring motionless at the one thing that presented him with vast, insoluble problems: complete emptiness," (Seghers 614). Then, she hears someone call her by a name she had not heard since she was a schoolgirl. The memory thus triggered, Seghers delves into a traumatic past with courageous detail.
Seghers's narrative style is full of bitterness and tension that are appropriate for rendering the traumatic events described in the story. Repetition is one of the cornerstones of Seghers's writing style, as the author frequently alludes to Marianne's immanent betrayal of Leni: the central event of the story. Yet it is not just Marianne's betrayal of Leni that Seghers talks about. Marianne's betrayal of Leni is like the hub of a series of events that are linked thematically as one by one the people who she thought she could trust turn out to be traitors. The title of the narrative is telling: the term "outing" refers both to the betrayal and to its context.
The memory...
Moreover, the memory emerges as if from a dream state. It was hot, she was feeling weak and tired. A strange house catches her eye, and she attributes a sudden sense of nostalgia to some remnants of "idle curiosity" from her "old wanderlust days," (Seghers 614). She has been wandering for a long time and now knows there is "only one more venture which could spur me on: the journey home," (615). Home, of course, is Mainz and the school at which she met Leni.
Seghers starts as if with the finish, letting the reader know that Leni will be shuttled to the concentration camps, will die there, and was betrayed by Marianne and her Nazi husband. Knowing this adds substantial tension to the tale, because the bulk of it describes the deep friendships between Leni and Marianne. It is thoroughly shocking to hear over and over that her own best friend will basically kill Leni. Repetition drills home the imagery of death.
The two girls, Leni and Marianne, were inseparable until Marianne met Otto Fresnius, who would become a stalwart Nazi. Once Otto…
Work Cited
Seghers, Anna. "The Outing of the Dead Schoolgirls." The Kenyon Review. Vol. 31, No. 5, p. 613-642.
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