Abstract
This article examines the mechanisms the characters as well as the text apply in response to a traumatic childhood experience: the destruction of the symbiotic unity of the Ego and the world. The walk the child and grandfather take together affirms this split reality as the characteristic order of things when referring to central anthropological moments: the erect posture of man, speech, work, learning and memory. According to my thesis, the plague story serves to internalise the inaccessible catastrophe at the same time: Following the model of tragedy, the plague story aims at immunising the listener by vaccinating them narratively.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Faculties: | Languages and Literatures > Department 1 |
| Subjects: | 800 Literature > 830 German and related literatures |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-59539-5 |
| Alliance/National Licence: | This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
| Language: | German |
| Item ID: | 59539 |
| Date Deposited: | 12. Dec 2018 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:38 |
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