| Summary: | Klaus Böldl’s prose works explore the Scandinavian North offering a narrative construction of a remote, lonely and forlorn place, which cannot produce any empathy. The characters featured in his writings are displaced figures, German ‘travellers’ whose perception of the Nordic reality can produce only fractal images of the immediate surroundings. By analysing two of Böldl’s texts, Studie in Kristallbildung (1997) and Südlich von Abisko (2000), my paper aims at highlighting the recurring patterns of Nordic topography starting from the descriptions of the environment and from the distinct ways in which the protagonists experience the landscape and map cultural geographies.
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