Works by Hermann Kant, Christoph Hein, Helga Königsdorf, and Helga Schubert are here examined, particularly in consideration of the ambivalent relationships between the devotion to the ideological reasons of socialism, and the critical representation of the restrictions that affected civil life in the GDR. In the aftermath of the German reunification, the reflection on the ongoing social and political transformations produces some paradigm shifts in these author's use of the language; such changes are intended to highlight the potentiality that these texts have in presenting the radicality of these transformations.
