Life as exile -- Distance and disharmony: The other Paris and My heart is broken -- Multivoiced narration and historiographic discourse: The Pegnitz junction -- Structural patterns of disjunction: Green water, green sky, A fairly good time, and The end of the world -- Ironic markers of disintegration: From the fifteenth district -- Spatial patterns of displacement: Home truths -- Text and image: Overhead in a balloon -- Stylistic reflection of tension: In transit -- Elegy and intimacy: Across the bridge -- Conclusion: fictional worlds of disintegration.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-217) and index.