Killing time
Subtitle: waiting hierarchies in the twentieth-century German novel
By: Jennifer Marston William.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757413
Subjects: German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German fiction -- Europe, German-speaking -- History and criticism; Waiting (Philosophy) in literature; Time in literature; Hierarchies in literature; Social structure in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Waiting hierarchies: symptomatic of modern life; title: Der Verschollene : "Why are you keeping me waiting?"; title: Der Zauberberg : "empty betweentimes"; title: Transit : "an insane waiting for nothing"; title: Mutmassungen über Jakob : "the world hasn't been waiting just for me"; title: Malina : "must one wait a whole lifetime?"; title: "Ich" : "now I could only wait; title: for what?"; title: Nachwelt : "the waiting existed only for her".