The Unchained Word
A brilliant analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writing influenced and stirred the 20th century, both intellectually and politically.
Three hundred years after Luther and one ...
Heinz Schlaffer
Heinz Schlaffer, born 1939, lives in Stuttgart where he held a professorship for German literature until 2004. In 2002 Hanser published his much-discussed book on German literature, Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. A paperback edition of his book Poesie und Wissen came out in 2005 in Suhrkamp Verlag.
The Short History of German Literature
It was only from 1750 onward, and long after the great flowerings of Italian, Spanish or French literature, that books were written in Germany that would come to be regarded as classics of world ...
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