Aus einem theorielastigen Buch über Raumtheorie als Basis für Literatur:

'Gottfried Benn uses an image that aptly describes structures from which chronological sequence has been eliminated: "The novel is... built like an orange. An orange consists of numerous segments, the individual pieces of fruit, the slices, all alike, all next to one another (nebeneinander - Lessing's term), of equal value... but they all tend not outward, into space, they tend toward the middle, toward...

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