Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel

Through a comparative study of five major novels - by Uwe Johnson, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Jurek Becker, and Gnter Grass, all of whom are shown to be concerned with the kinds of stories ordinary people tell about themselves - this book investigates the fantasies and fictions of their narrators, examining the purpose which the fictions serve within each text and the means by which the reader's attention is drawn to them.