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Hermann Hesse als Literaturkritiker.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070401
Author:Cornils, Ingo

Hermann Hesse als Literaturkritiker. By MARCO SHICKLING Heidelberg: Winter. 2005. 238 pp. 928. ISBN 978-3-8253-5080-2.

Following the landmark publication of the Samtliche Werke (ed. by Volker Michels, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2001-), Hermann Hesse is undergoing a reappraisal. Marco Schickling, co-editor of Hesse's book reviews (Samtliche Werke, vols xvi-xx), is ideally placed to offer a wide-ranging and detailed account of Hesse's literary criticism between 1900 and 1962. During this period Hesse wrote 3,365 of what he termed 'literarische Gebrauchstexte'. In comparison, ...

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