The purpose of this research study is to examine some pretexts of two books written at the turn of the 20th and 21th century - Thomas Brussig’s “At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee” and Wladimir Kaminer’s “Russian Disco”. In these works the country and nationality discourse is important. The comparative method and the intertextuality analysis are used. As the result the intertextual connection of narrative strategies in the both books with the anecdote (the joke) was found out. It also may be concluded that the texts use different anecdote subgenres - in Brussig’s book the political anecdote is the main pretext, in the Kaminer’s one - the ethnic joke. The play with ethnic stereotypes in Kaminer’s work and Brussig’s politically determined narrative dynamics are shown.
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