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Speculations About Jakob

novel by Johnson

Also known as: “Mutmassungen über Jakob”

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discussed in biography

In Uwe Johnson
…novel, Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959; Speculations About Jakob). Its modernist narrative and its frank engagement with the problems faced daily by German citizens brought Johnson critical acclaim. Aware that his work would not be published in East Germany as long as he wrote what he wished to write and unable—because…
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type of New Novel

In New Novel
…Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959; Speculations About Jakob) and the British author Rayner Heppenstall’s Connecting Door (1962)—share many of the characteristics of the New Novel, such as vaguely identified characters, casual arrangement of events, and ambiguity of meaning.
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