Article
Spanish
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Abstract
The article tries to represent the important role of the so-called lower senses (touch, smell and taste) in Uwe Timm’s work. Although, according to Timm, the starting point of its narrative is the image, the lower senses play an equally significant role in the narrative flow. Referring to autobiographic experiences and collective memory, Timm creates a vision of the multi-sensory world. The haptic sense is expressed in different ways as a sense of touch (in an erotic and economic context), as a sense of balance and temperature (experiences of soldiers returning from Russian prisoners camps). The senses of taste and smell, despite their volatility, are represented not only as carriers of individual but also collective memory. The introduction of the lower senses Timm carries out a scientific-cultural reconstruction of the present and the past.