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The stories which have been divided into three main types--Dream Fantasies, Satiric Fantasies and Grotesque Fantasies--correspond to a great degree to Kathryn Hume's schema of literature of vision, revision, and disillusion. They all want to disturb the reader and force him to think for himself. This is a fantastic of engagement which reveals a great deal about themes such as the relationship of the individual to society, the division of Germany, and the status of women in a socialist state. Although these themes have been treated elsewhere in GDR literature in the mimetic mode, they emerge here with greater clarity and force through the estrangement of the fantastic. They also confirm once more the crucial connection between literature and the society from which it springs.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:04:06Z (GMT). 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