Trivialität im neusachlichen Gewand. Einige Bemerkungen zu Hans Falladas Kleiner Mann, Großer Mann

• Authors: Wolfgang Brylla

Title variants

EN

Triviality in the new objectivity layout. Considerations on Hans Fallada’s Kleiner Mann, großer Mann

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Hans Fallada’s novel Kleiner Mann, großer Mann (1941) is in principle regarded as a trivial novel and it is for this reason that it has very seldom aroused interest among the literati. Yet, Fallada himself at one time called his texts written in the Nazi Germany a kind of entertaining or popular literature. However, with the careful analysis of Kleiner Mann, großer Mann one should state that the novel about the offcial Max Schreyvogel, at least with respect to the narration, does not come under the criterion of triviality. The somewhat trashy story (histoire albo narrative) is being told with the new objective (new objectivity), realistic means (discourse) which are in cotrast to the banality of the main topic.

Keywords

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Hans Fallada; Neue Sachlichkeit; Trivialität; Narratologie; new objectivity; triviality; narratology

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 140
• Pages: 41 - 59

Contributors

author

Wolfgang Brylla

• Universität Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra