Scherpe Klaus R. Modern and Postmodern Transformationosf the Metropolitan Narrative

New German Critique, No. 55 (Winter, 1992), pp. 71-85I want to pose the question as to the depictability and narratability of the city in modernist German Literature,1a nd to make some observations on postmodern metropolitan culture in, for example, Frankfurt and Berlin, including some remarks concerning the newest phenomenon of the culturalization of metropolitan life.