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Bernd's study shows how Storm's Novellen are made purposeful by the
operations of a fictional intelligence, haunted by the fear of
passing time. The author challenges the traditional belief that
Storm's narratives are products of a sentimental mind. No other
discussion of Storm's tales, be it analysis of an individual
narrative or collective treatment of several or all of them, seeks
to interpret them with such specific emphasis upon their fictional,
omniscient narrator. This concentration on the fictional narrator
also leads into a study of Storm's subjective narrative form.
This book offers a new understanding of the nineteenth-century
German author Thodor Storm, taking seriously, for the first time,
the heritage of the Danish muse in his life and major works. Bernd
offers a Dano-German portrait of Storm, tracing the youth of the
author in the bicultural borderland of Schleswig, where Storm lived
under a succession of Danish monarchs until he was 36 years old,
and learned to refer to the German states as Ausland (foreign
territory). Highlighting the German nationalism that has prevented
previous biographers, beginning with Storm's own daughter, from
drawing attention to the importance of Danish culture and
literature in forming the author, Bernd then details Storm's
education and reading in the Danish language and literature,
showing how he added a distinct Danish tone to his German poetry
and also refashioned the German novella in the manner of Danish
practitioners, and thus became a unique representative of a Danish
literature situated in the German-speaking world. These
achievements, inflected by transnational influence, should now help
us to recognize Storm as a figure of exceptional importance in
European letters.
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