Arjounis texts tell the stories of losers and impostors who desperately try to uphold their identity concepts or satisfy social demands. They also adress the German identity and its inherent rejection and demarcation from the foreign. Stereotyping and subversion are central narrative devices in Arjouniְs work, mirroring the superficial view of the other and the own, but also encompassing narrative and genre-specific stereotypes. Behind Arjounis irony, situational comedy, and wit, an aesthetic of failure to satisfy individual and social conditions in postwar Germany shines through. Ten years after Arjounis death, this book presents research findings and tendencies on his work.