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Based on the most likely interpretation, you are referring to the German author (1933–2017) and his novella Das war der Hirbel (often translated or discussed under titles like Hirbel or The Card in critical essays) — or possibly his work Fränze — where the motif of a “card” (like an ID, medical record, or report card) plays a central role. There is no widely known work titled Card Fictions PDF , but Härtling frequently wrote about children with behavioral disorders, institutionalization, and the way bureaucratic “files” (card indexes) construct fictional identities.

Härtling suggests that the greatest fiction is not the child’s fantasy but the adult’s claim to objectivity. Psychological reports, school cards, and case files pretend to be neutral mirrors of reality. In fact, they are narrative acts — selective, framed, and laden with institutional power. The child who refuses to speak in class is not “selectively mute” on his own terms; he is strategically silent against a hostile world. By juxtaposing the card’s language (often quoted in italics or separated typographically) with the child’s lived experience, Härtling performs a literary unmasking of bureaucratic prose. pit hartling card fictionspdf