Ansgar Mohnkern's Memoir on His Parents' Death Examined in Süddeutsche Zeitung

Ansgar Mohnkern has written a memoir about saying goodbye to his parents, a book that Süddeutsche Zeitung singles out as distinctive within the crowded field of literature on aging and dying. Literature, the paper notes, gives Mohnkern a language in which the unspeakable can be written about. The book is the subject of a piece published on the Süddeutsche Zeitung culture section under the URL https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/alter-pflege-tod-ansgar-mohnkern-buch-li.3533369. The article's title, "Literatur: Am Ende wartet der Tod," frames the work around the themes of aging, care and death. According to the source, many books address growing old and dying, but Mohnkern's account of parting from his parents stands apart from that body of work. The memoir is presented as a text in which literary language becomes the means of articulating an experience otherwise difficult to put into words.