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Raüme in Günter Grass' Prosa is Nathalie Kónya-Jobs's dissertation and it bears many of the genre's hallmarks. It is thorough, detailed, and thoughtful, but also long-winded, and it deals with two vast topics: Günter Grass and space. As Kónya-Jobs states in her introductory sentence, the dissertation's intentions are twofold: "Erstens soll sie einen Beitrag zur literaturwissenschaftlichen Erforschung ausgewählter Texte des Autors Günter Grass leisten. Zweitens soll sie exemplarisch das heuristische Potenzial des Raumkonzeptes für die Literaturwissenschaft aufzeigen" (9). She notes that Grass's œuvre is replete with spaces such as landscapes, cities, and rooms and she wants to explore how Grass achieves their narrative construction. To this end, the introduction's long final paragraph lists more than a dozen "Leitfragen" (18) to ascertain, for example, the specific qualities of spaces, the correlation between figures [End Page 707] and spaces, the link between memory and space as well as the role of narrators. Given this spectrum of issues and the theoretical approaches they necessitate, the author sees her study as presenting "die Verbindung einer interkulturellen und einer raumphilologischen Studie" (11), requiring her to also address topics such as the politics of memory, bicultural identity, perception of self and other, and changing border regimes. This is, by all accounts, a far-reaching, expansive agenda not only in terms of subject matters and theoretical discourses but also regarding the number of Grass texts examined. In addition to the Danzig trilogy, Kónya-Jobs includes all of Grass's major novels and novellas as well as the first two volumes of his autobiographical project.

Paysage --- Espace et temps --- Dans la littérature --- Grass, Günter --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature. --- Critique et interprétation.