Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre. Perspektiven literarischer Anthropologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991. 522pp.
"Das Fiktive und das Imaginäre. Perspektiven literarischer Anthropologie." Suhrkamp Programmforschau 1991/1, pp. 52-53. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991. Abstract of book.
Translated into English by David Henry Wilson and Wolfgang Iser as The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxi, 347pp.
John Hopkins Paperback edition, 1993.
Translated into Portuguese by Johannes Kretschmer as O Fictíio e o Imaginário: perspectivas de uma anthropologia literária. Rio de Janeiro: Editora de Universidaded do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 1996.