Killing time [electronic resource] : waiting hierarchies in the twentieth-century German novel / Jennifer Marston William.

Introduction : waiting hierarchies: symptomatic of modern life
Der Verschollene : "why are you keeping me waiting?"
Der Zauberberg : "empty betweentimes"
Transit : "an insane waiting for nothing"
Mutmassungen über Jakob : "the world hasn't been waiting just for me"
Malina : "must one wait a whole lifetime?"
"Ich" : "now I could only wait
for what?"
Nachwelt : "the waiting existed only for her."