"HOMECOMING" OF BERNHARD SCHLINK IN THE LITERARY CONTEXT OF GERMANY OF THE NEWEST TIME
The analysis concerns the interpretations of the stories about Odysseus in the German epic literature of the second half of the 20<sup>th </sup>and early 21<sup>st </sup>century. Bernhard Schlink's novel "Homecoming is studied not only in the light of the author's myth-making tradition, but also in the literary context of Germany of the newest time (the novels by G.E.Nossak, G.Kazak, J. Brezan).