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Literary Research: Narration and the Epistemology of the Human Sciences in Alfred Doblin

There are novels which display their characters in a constrained, ineluctable situation and observe plot development as in a laboratory-mostly, so as to count the corpses at the end. Such novels are poetic experiments, they probe cause and effect, rules and processes brought to light by their exemplary narratives. Their intent is less representational mimesis than an analysis of natural laws. They are, as Michel Butor put it, "laboratoires du recit"2 in which truth and knowledge are to be demonstrated based on the evidence of a typical case. The literary experiment, like all research, is conducted in a given historical context of knowledge and the knowable; it is part of an 'archive,' which Michel Foucault defined as the "the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events."3 Literature explores this space of possible statements