„Das seltsame Königsmärchen…“. Zur Bedeutung des Märchen-Narrativs im Roman "Sehnsucht ins Reich" von Willibald Köhler
“The Strange King’s Tale…”: On the Meaning of the Fairy-Tale Narrative in the Novel "Sehnsucht ins Reich" by Willibald Köhler

Author(s): Nina Nowara-Matusik
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Willibald Köhler; novel; fairy tale; Upper Silesia; identity
Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the novel "Sehnsucht ins Reich" (1933) by Willibald Köhler, which is interpreted in terms of the meaning that the fairy tale plays in it. The analysis focuses on the question of Upper Silesian identity, illustrated by “The Strange King’s Tale…” It shows that the writer creates in the novel a vague identity that does not lend itself to national categorisation.

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