| Abstrakt: |
Concerns about creativity and marketability have plagued the German literary scene since the 1990s, resulting in the literary trend of “neue Lesbarkeit”—a call for good stories in palatable packaging to appeal to the reading masses. This examination of Martina Hefter's second novel, Zurück auf Los, calls into question the assumption that young German authors striving for readability compromise literary sophistication in the process. Further, it demonstrates that recognizable literary conventions can be used to present sophisticated explorations of the semantic crisis facing German authors deluged by imports from the United States and Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
