Ebook: Notes to Literature. Volume 1

New York: Columbia University Press, 1991 — 284 p. — ISBN-10: 0231063334; ISBN-13: 978-0231063333. Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholson.The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel.ContentsTranslator's preface
Editorial remarks from the german editionThe Essay as Form
On Epic Naivete
The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel
On Lyric Poetry and Society
In Memory of Eichendorff
Heine the Wound
Looking Back on Surrealism
Punctuation Marks
The Artist as DeputyOn the Final Scene of Faust
Reading Balzac
Valery's Deviations
Short Commentaries on Proust
Words from Abroad
Ernst Bloch's Spuren
Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lulcäcs' Realism in Our Time
Trying to Understand Endgame