Chapter V: Jahrestage: Narrative Circumstances
Colin Riordan
From The Ethics of Narration: Uwe Johnson's Novels from Ingrid Babendererde to Jahrestage (1989), pp. 63-98, doi:10.59860/td.c695fd6
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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 Abstract. In the struggle to salvage by fictional means a world submerged in the past, Jahrestage resorts to a set of narrative circumstances whose paradoxical complexity requires comprehensive explication. The novel shows at its most distinctive the familiar Johnsonian structural pattern of erzählte Zeit beginning at a point well previous to the fictional present, gradually catching up and merging with the Erzählzeit. In the novel, Gesine Cresspahl, who lives with her daughter in New York, spends a year retracing the story of her family from around 1920 to the fictional presence in 1968. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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