Braun, Michael (2019). Beyond literature? Dead narrators in contemporary literature. Quad. Filol.-Estud. Lit., 24. S. 237 - 252. VALENCIA: UNIV VALENCIA, FAC FILOLOGIA. ISSN 2444-1457

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Abstract

Obviously, the death of the narrator does not allow him any more to tell his own story, according to Vladimir Nabokov's dictum The 'I' of the book cannot die in the book. However, there are many novels and short stories in contemporary German literature with a dead narrator. They belong to the so-called Hereafter narratives (Jenseitserzahlungen). My essay argues that the death of the narrator is the resurrection of the unreliable narrator in a very special sense: with a magic realism in Daniel Kehlmann's Der fernste Ort (2001), and in Patrick Roth's Johnny Shines oder Die Wiedererweckung der Toten (1993) by mythopoetic writing.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Braun, MichaelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-160056
DOI: 10.7203/qdfed.24.16342
Journal or Publication Title: Quad. Filol.-Estud. Lit.
Volume: 24
Page Range: S. 237 - 252
Date: 2019
Publisher: UNIV VALENCIA, FAC FILOLOGIA
Place of Publication: VALENCIA
ISSN: 2444-1457
Language: German
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
Literature, RomanceMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/16005

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