Poetik der Zwischenräume und Konstruktion der liminalen Bereiche in Peter Handkes „Der große Fall“
The poetics of the interstitial areas and liminal structures in the Peter Handke work „Der große Fall“

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is an attempt to determine how Peter Handke understands space. Having started with the concept of spatial turn the author refers to such precursors of spatial trends in culture and literature as Marc Auge, Michel Foucault and Yuri Lotman. Then the differences between the so-called topological and topographical turn are listed. Based on these considerations, the author proves the thesis that in the literary worlds of Handke a kind of interstitial space can be seen. The analysis of one of his recent novels „Der große Fall“ shows in which categories one can speak of a transitional state of space, what the liminal parts of the world presented are and what functions itself the interstitial space plays.

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