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This article starts from the hypothesis that destabilizing a coherent fictional world constitutes a core strategy within the ideological project of totaalproza authors. It examines how Lidy van Marissing, one of these authors, employs narrative space in her debut novel Ontbinding (1972) as a means of expressing literary and political engagement. Drawing on Zoran’s model of narrative space and philosophical concepts such as Foucault’s heterotopia and Augé’s non-place, the analysis demonstrates how Ontbinding organizes its narrative world around binary oppositions – inside/outside, private/public, personal/anonymous – that are systematically undermined. This subversion generates political awareness not only among the novel’s characters, but also within the reader, who is actively engaged through the textual rendering of narrative space in the montage novel. In Ontbinding, the use of space functions not merely as a reflection of Van Marissing’s social vision, but as an invitation to critically interrogate one’s own reality.