This bachelor thesis tries to highlight the role of myth in the structure of the modern mythological novel by taking a closer look upon the novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. Following Mario Andrenottis' understanding of the structure of the modern prose, the thesis is set up, that the structure of the modern mythological novel is established on the grounds of rebelling against the principles of the bourgeois prose of the 19th century by building the characters, following the gestic principle and trough merging of the structure and the content. How do the principles of the modern prose show in the context of the modern mythological novel and what is the role of the myth with respect to them? It turns out, one of the possible ways of building a character, following the gestic principle, is literary prefiguration. It is a technique, which provokes the typifying of the characters by forming parallels between mythological motives and the contemporary subjects. This enables the narrator to include a comment, without limiting the readers' options of interpretation. In The Tin Drum, one can find almost all kinds of literary prefiguration, which forms the structural principle of the narration. The latter is strongly related to the content, due to the fact that the main character's way of rearranging the rhythm of his contemporariness with the rhythm of his drum, is analogue to the technique of the literary prefiguration, which draws parallels with myth and thus rearranges the notion of the contemporal subject.
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