Article: Dialogue with the Reader. The Narrative Stance in Uwe Johnson's Fiction.

Uwe Johnson's novels remain - as Fickert puts it - the object of literary controversy. Some still regard him as a 'difficult' author, he argues; others, by contrast, place him amongst the greatest twentieth-century writers. This study's stated purpose is to elucidate the narrative structure of Johnson's complex novels, in order to attempt a balanced evaluation of their nature and significance.

Johnson criticism, like novel theory, is a well-established phenomenon, and though well-read in both it is not clear that Fickert has anything substantially new to say. Admittedly, his introduction implies, if it does not state specifically, that he may be writing for the ...

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