Readers and Their Fictions in the Novels and Novellas of Gottfried Keller

This study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller's realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction. The story of reading in Keller's fiction is a self-conscious meditation on the schism between life and its literary representation - and it emphasizes the incapacity of that representation to influence the life it is based on.

Acest studiu incearca sa ne modifice intelegerea realismului lui Keller prin problematizarea actului de a citi in fictiune. Povestea lecturii din fictiunea lui Keller este o meditatie constienta asupra schismei dintre viata si reprezentarea ei literara - si subliniaza incapacitatea acelei reprezentari de a influenta viata pe care se bazeaza.