Patrick Süskind's Die Taube und Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer - innere Zwänge, Selbstabgrenzung und Objektivierung als Konstituenten von Außenseiteridentitäten

by Fleischer, Muriel Myriam

The following thesis examines Süskind?s novella Die Taube (1987) and his short-story Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer (1991) with respect to the literary identities of the outsiders Jonathan Noel and Herr Sommer. The theoretical framework is based on the deep hermeneutic analysis of Alfred Lorenzer?s literary-psychoanalytic theory (1986) which affords one the opportunity of analyzing the personality and concept of life of the literary figures by examining their interactional patterns and relationship to society.