The Pluralization and Decentering of Literary Space
摘要
The pluralization of literary space represents another means of evoking transnational, global, or multinational audiences. Literature with multiple or global addresses is characterized by the fact that the focus is no longer on a national or local space but that different spaces are organized on an equal footing. Entertainment literature from Jules Verne to Ian Fleming to Dan Brown uses this strategy naturally. In the novels of Leo Perutz, the empiric distribution area and the literary space correlate. As I also show with the novels of Irmgard Keun (German Exile) and Terézia Mora (twenty-first century novelist), the pluralization of space leads to a cultural opening of the text. In other words, the novels elude national classification.