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"The emptiness of all things under heaven": Joseph Conrad and Brigitte Kronauer's Berittener Bogenschutze.(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060922
Author:Roder-Bolten, Gerlinde

In 2002 a collection of essays by Brigitte Kronauer was published in Germany under the title, Zweideutigkeit (ambiguity), an aptly chosen title for the work of an author who confesses to an ongoing fascination with ambiguity. Ambiguity first excited her at the age of fourteen and, at times, borders for her on an aesthetic or artistic credo. Born in 1940 in Essen but now living in Hamburg, Kronauer has ranked among the important authors of German literature for nearly a quarter of a century. Her first novel, Frau Muhlenbeck im Gehause (1980), was widely praised for its linguistic ...

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