Writing as a Magician's Game:The Strange Early World of Christoph Meckel

The contemporary German author Christoph Meckel often introduces into his early short stories the metaphor of "playing a game" for creating a literary work. The paper investigates how Meckel uses this metaphor, what types of games he plays with the reader, and what kind of a world he creat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heidi M. Rockwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1984-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol8/iss2/4