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Part of the book: The Ethics of Narration

Colin Riordan

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 28

Bithell Series of Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  A cynic might suggest that Karsch, und andere Prosa (1964) was produced to sustain public interest in Uwe Johnson during the four-year gap between Das dritte Buch über Achim and Zwei Ansichten. Comprising only eighty-nine pages of large, well-spaced type, these texts have only a peripheral relevance to the analysis of the technical evolution in Johnson's novels. All the same, the omniscient narrative perspective adopted is symptomatic of the rather more complex, but related approach in Zwei Ansichten.

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