"Nur wo er spielt, ganz Mensch"? Christoph Hein's 'Das Napoleon-Spiel.'

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The article takes the central formal technique of Christoph Hein's 'Das Napoleon-Spiel' as a way of explicating the work.The Post-Modernism which because the fashion in Western Germany in the 1980s is also compared to the narrator's technique. Hein also discusses the ahistorical opportunism which he saw as characteristic of the newly unified Germany.

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'Pollok und die Attentaterin - "ein Roman uber die fundlamentale und unweigerliche Nichtubereinstimmung von Realitat und Erzahlung."(Interview)

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An interview with Brigitte Burmeister on her latest novel 'Pollok und die Attentaterin" is given, a book which Burmeister sees as depicting the difference between relaity and storytelling. The problems of German reunification no longer play such a key role as they did in Burmeister's last book, 'Unter dem Namen Norma.'

Interview, Literature, German reunification, 1990, Burmeister, Brigitte

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Chistoph Hein's 'Das Napoleon-Spiel' and the Ludic principle

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Christoph Hein's 'Das Napoleon-Spiel' is discussed as part of a tradition of novels on the theme of gratuitous murder. After comparing Hein's work to others in this tradition, Huizinga's concept of the ludic principle and Schiller's of play ares used to discuss the protagonist

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