The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism - Paperbackby Alexander Sorenson (Author) The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With somber regularity, they then disappear into the depths. Alexander Sorenson explores the role that these hidden deaths in water play within a