The destruction of fiction: Observations on the poetological passages in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival'

This article demonstrates the stringency of the argumentation on poetic the ory in the prologue, the self-defence and the Minne escurses, and the image of the bow. The aim is to show how the epistemological or linguistic and e thical problem of the differentiation between fiction and reality is discus sed on various levels within the literary work and how in the end the auton omy of fiction is rejected.