Leo Perutz' Romane

The volume presents an introduction to the work of the writer Leo Perutz (1882'1957). Each of the ten chapters deals with one of Perutz' novels, from Die dritte Kugel [The third bullet] through to Der Judas des Leonardo [Leonardo's Judas]. In addition to the textual analyses, the volume contains a hitherto unpublished novella and a comprehensive bibliography. In its approach, the volume makes a case for a way of dealing with literary texts which combines structuralist and hermeneutical traditions. Each of the chapters proceeds from a reconstruction of the structure of a text to its interpretation.