Critical Strategies: German Fiction in the Twentieth Century

The 20th Century German novel, perhaps more than any other modern literary genre, tends to be treated merely as a philosophical, psychological or social commentary, without sufficient attention being paid to it as a work of literature with its own peculiar structural properties and refractive techniques. The authors have aimed to redress this balance in their book by offering a series of fresh critical approaches to the internal logic of the novel and to the complex relationship between the fictional world and the real world. Each chapter introduces a particular aspect of fictional technique (such as space, time or dialogue) and discusses this as it is manipulated by different writers. Critical Strategies offers a fresh and important approach to the modern German novel. At the same time it constitutes an excellent introduction to the major writers of this field, and focuses stimulating critical attention on significant facets of literary content and technique.