Preview: The topics highlighted in the title of this introduction can be treated as a compass guiding the problems tackled by the authors of this volume. The general topic of the narrative approach to life was described by Wilhelm Schapp as entanglement, the state of always being involved in a story, of both telling it and being told by it. Entanglement…

Preview: Phenomenology engaged with literature from its very beginnings, across all its main centers: the Munich circle (Johannes Daubert), the Göttingen school (Roman Ingarden), and Freiburg (Heidegger). Contemporary French scholars such as Claude Romano, Henri Maldiney, Éliane Escoubas, and Jean-Louis Chrétien have further strengthened this phenomenological engagement with literature. However, the…