Das unwahrscheinlich (un-)zuverlässige Erzählen in Wolfgang Herrndorfs ,,Sand“

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Verena Russlies

Abstract Der Beitrag untersucht die potenziell unzuverlässige Erzählweise von Wolfgang Herrndorfs Roman Sand. Dabei werden signifikante Abweichungen von der textevozierten Leseerwartung, die u. a. auf Rezeptionskonventionen der Kriminalliteratur aufbaut, als Indizien für mimetische Unzuverlässigkeit gelesen. Obwohl der Grad erzählerischer Unzuverlässigkeit stark interpretationsabhängig bleibt, wird deutlich, dass diese im Werk hauptsächlich autoreferenzielle Funktionen übernimmt.This article examines the potential unreliable narration in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s novel Sand. In doing so, the significant discrepancies from the reader’s expectation, which among other things builds on the conventional reception of crime fiction, are read as indication for a mimetic unreliability. While the degree in which the narrative is seen as unreliable heavily depends on the interpretation, it becomes apparent that this untrustworthiness primarily takes on a self-referential role.

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-338
Author(s):  
Daniel Del Gobbo

This article revisits long-standing debates about objective interpretation in the common law system by focusing on a crime novel by Agatha Christie and judicial opinion by the Ontario High Court. Conventions of the crime fiction and judicial opinion genres inform readers’ assumption that the two texts are objectively interpretable. This article challenges this assumption by demonstrating that unreliable narration is often, if not always, a feature of written communication. Judges, like crime fiction writers, are storytellers. While these authors might intend for their stories to be read in certain ways, the potential for interpretive disconnect between unreliable narrators and readers means there can be no essential quality that marks a literary or legal text’s meaning as objective. Taken to heart, this demands that judges try to narrate their decisions more reliably so that readers are able to interpret the texts correctly when it matters most.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Eric Sandberg
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2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-393
Author(s):  
Shirley Peterson
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2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart King

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart King ◽  
Stephen Knight
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