Publications [#241418] of Jakob Norberg

Articles/Essays/Chapters in Books

1. Norberg, J. "Late socialism as a narrative problem: Christoph Hein and the limits of the Novella." German Studies Review 38.1Johns Hopkins University Press, (February, 2015): 63-82. [repository], [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/23)

   Abstract:
   Christoph Hein's Der fremde Freund, published in the GDR in 1982, counts as a paradigmatic postwar German novella. While the text announces its genre membership explicitly, it fails, or perhaps refuses, to substantiate fully its initial self-categorization. Indeed, its ambiguous adherence to the premises of this eventfocused genre highlights how the use of a particular generic format to organize narrative material can serve to foreground and conceal, activate and deactivate ideological meanings.