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  1. Robert Walsers Grenzwertigkeit : 'Erzählen-als-Schreiben' in "Der Spaziergang"
    Author: Gloor, Lukas
    Published: 06.09.2018

    Robert Walser's text "The Walk" enacts a narrative that is genuinely describable as one 'on the border' to non-narrativity. This paper takes a look at how "The Walk" uses indicators of narrativity / narrativeness in order to subvert them, especially... more

     

    Robert Walser's text "The Walk" enacts a narrative that is genuinely describable as one 'on the border' to non-narrativity. This paper takes a look at how "The Walk" uses indicators of narrativity / narrativeness in order to subvert them, especially by dissolving narrative times. This leads to narrative performativity. Its narrative techniques are mirrored in the very Walserian self-description of eating a meal. In the central episode of the "The Walk" the protagonist eats "pieces" (German "Stücke"), what in Walser's terminology means both sweets and narratives ("Prosastückli"). This leads to a circle of intertextuality, in which the writer reads his own text and re-writes it at the same time. Nonetheless, "The Walk" is not a pure manifestation of self-reflexivity because its non-systematic narration is undeniable. Walser's "The Walk" formulates and follows a poetics of "narrating-as-writing" which highlights both performativity and materiality of the act of narration.

     

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    Source: CompaRe
    Language: German
    Media type: Part of a book; Part of a book
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-8498-1249-2
    DDC Categories: 800; 830
    Collection: Aisthesis Verlag
    Subjects: Walser, Robert; Der Spaziergang; Erzähltheorie; Ich-Form; Selbstbezüglichkeit; Spaziergang <Motiv>
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