Abstract
Abstract In the preface to his Sieben Legenden (Seven Legends), Gottfried Keller claims that the seven novels published in this collection are a “reproduction” of a “rather profane narrative,” one that can be traced back to older collections of Christian legends, but which has also been significantly altered by Christian storytelling. This article examines the prerequisites for and the strategies underpinning this reproduction project and how Keller tries to uncover an original pretext and a novelistic storytelling tradition. Such a tradition, however, seems to consist in the construction of a modern narrative concept instead of the reconstruction of an old one.
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