Publisher's Synopsis
This study focuses on shorter prose texts in post-War Germany, especially works by Durrenmatt, Hochhuth and Walser. Bringing to bear different but complementary approaches, Dr. Plouffe considers the ""Novelle"" and its Anglo-Saxon counterparts, the short story and novella, in their shared themes of uncertain existence and ambiguity of language - motifs deriving largely from Freud and Lacan.
