Rainer Godel - Phasenweise Zuwendung. Stadtideale in Brigitte Reimanns Roman Franziska Linkerhand - Monatshefte 99:4 (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

By examining the plot and the narrative structure of Brigitte Reimann's novel Franziska Linkerhand, the article demonstrates that this novel cannot be satisfactorily described by categorizing it within the dichotomies of ideology versus resistance or of affirmative versus critical positions. The analysis does not focus on the theme or the motif of the city, nor on architecture or architectural theory represented in the novel, but on the narrative perception and evaluation of the city. It is this aspect that had, on the one hand, produced new literary forms in the city novels as early as the 1920s. On the other hand, it had been subject to the standardizing thrust of ideologies aiming at a collective norm of visual perception of the city. The article shows how the narrative structure of the novel undermines the ideological versions of architectural design with which Franziska, the protagonist, is confronted. The novel does not depict an ideological or an individual solution that...

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