Chapter VIII: Gesine and Marie: A Narrative Paradigm
Colin Riordan
From The Ethics of Narration: Uwe Johnson's Novels from Ingrid Babendererde to Jahrestage (1989), pp. 161-214, doi:10.59860/td.c8cf683
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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. Gesine's daughter Marie is handicapped by being largely unable to compare her mother's version with an alternative of her own. Her efforts must restrict themselves to discovering intrinsic implausibilities and inconsistencies in Gesine's story, testing, as it were, the narrative's structural strength. The child acquires an ever-increasing maturity which eventually enables her to subordinate the progress of the story to her own objections and the trepidation which those objections arouse in Gesine. This becomes a narrative crisis which peaks at the end of Jahrestage 3. 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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