Abstract
Without remembering the act of her impregnation, Heinrich von Kleist’s famous Marquise of O. finds herself pregnant. Same happens to Amy Schreiber, protagonist of Marlene Streeruwitz’ latest novel Die Schmerzensmacherin. Both texts explore the circumstances of those incidents as legal cases. The Marquise happens to be molested during a siege after an attack of foreign troops. Similar fate affects Amy working as a trainee for a security company which partakes in the asymmetric war on terror in Afghanistan. Both texts raise legal problems of international war reflected not only on the level of content but also on the narrative level. Comparing and analyzing both texts the article will show non-decisiveness, lack of accountability and the inability of legal attribution as characteristics for the negotiated contents and for status of the texts as narratives. The ›sovereignty‹ of both narrators is challenged here and up for discussion.
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