Eternity Enshrined in Black and White
“Letters are just thinner books,” Jean Paul once said, and that certainly holds true in his case. His love letters – to Charlotte von Kalb, Emilie von Berlepsch, Caroline von Feuchtersleben ...
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Helmut Pfotenhauer was born in 1946, and is senior professor of German Studies at the University of Würzburg. He has written numerous books on subjects including literary anthropology, verbal imagery and 18th - 20th century literature. He was president of the Jean- Paul Society for many years. Over the last two decades he has masterminded the editing and publication of Jean Paul’s posthumous manuscripts and is currently working on a new critical history of Jean-Paul’s published oeuvre.
Jean Paul – A Life in Writing
Jean Paul created his own world on paper, a universe made of ink: Schulmeisterlein Wutz, Hesperus – the most successful book of its time – Siebenkäs, his "cardinal and capital" novel Titan ...
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