„Mit dem Spiele spielen": zum Erzähldiskurs in Adolf Muschgs Roman „Der Rote Ritter“
'Playing with playing': on the narrative discourse in Adolf Muschg's novel “Der Rote Ritter”

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the narrative method and the different narrative voices in Adolf Muschg's novel “Der Rote Ritter”, which the author expressly described as a 'play' on Wolfram's von Eschenbach verse-novel “Parzival”. Thus Muschg, in his gigantic, emphatically post-modern novel, not only plays with the traditional medieval subjectmatter by amusingly linking past and contemporary, archaic and modern - first and foremost he enhances his depiction of the Parzival story with reflections, which are both witty yet intended to be taken seriously, on narrative and its various possibilities, on reading and the role of the reader, and on the significance of literature in our contemporary world which is dominated by a variety of media.

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