%0 Book
%A Carole Hanbidge
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T The Transformation of Failure
%B A critical analysis of character presentation in the novels of Wolfgang Koeppen
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1073467
%X This study of Wolfgang Koeppen's two pre-war and three post-war novels demonstrates a continuity both in Koeppen's thematic concerns and in the underlying development of his characters throughout the five novels. Often the novels have been treated as works of pessi- mistic social and political criticism: by contrast, this detailed analysis of the unique creative inner lives and the corresponding spiritual development of the characters - with the exception of Johannes von Süde in Die Mauer schwankt - demonstrates the narrator's positive assessment of the characters and the increa- singly optimistic tendency of the novels.
%G English