Хумболтов сусрет са Амазонијом: магични реализам у Келмановом роману Мапирање света

The creation of a framework in order to get an overview of the central issues of a certain time in German literary history, after the phase of building the German National Corps and its periodization, today faces the problem of taking a position against previously stated views that have historically had grave consequences. Any reference to a realistic approach should be understood in this context. In the novel Measuring the World (2005), Daniel Kehlmann, with the time of the story told and the characters, the historical context presented is important for the formation of German identity, whose re-examination in the changed circumstances and after gained experience, raises the questions of ‘realism’ by the answers offered in the literary form. His reference to the influences of magical realism, which he received, as he states, through Latin American literature, has caused controversies in the professional public, but no attempt was made to find links between attributes of the magical realism on the one hand, and how they are thematized by the narrative form on the other, respectively their formation into a specific genre type. Therefore, the paper explores the discrepancy between Kehlmann’s motivation and the reasons for the reception being directed to a particular contextual framework.