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From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society ofAmerica
Date: 20030922
Author:Eckart, Gabriele
Much has been written about the reception of Miguel de Cervantes in the age of Goethe, but aside from the pre-war figure of Thomas Mann (1) there has been little comment on his influence on the literature written in German-speaking countries in the twentieth century, especially after World War II. In 1969, Lienhard Bergel, in his thorough study "Cervantes in Germany," stated: "with Heine and Immermann ends the period in which Cervantes was an active ingredient in German life" (343); afterwards, Cervantes became "exclusively the object of philological specialists" (344). This ...
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