I will first focus on problems which might emerge in narrative interviews with people who have experienced long-term trajectories of suffering, before discussing the researcher's specific style of doing this particular biographical interview - a style which is marked by sensibility and considerateness, but might contain some problems nevertheless. Afterwards, I will deal with two formal features of the interviewee's introductory narrative - a complicated background construction and an extended pre-coda commentary - in order to reveal the analytical significance of these features for a deeper understanding of the interviewee's life history and her way of making sense of her experiences. The article ends with a discussion of some topics which are relevant for an analytical abstraction. © 2014 QSR.
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Riemann, G. (2014). A situation, a narrative, and a life history. The case of natalia. Qualitative Sociology Review, 10(1), 20–36. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.10.1.02
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