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Article: Die Fackel ins wunde Herz: Kraus uber Heine. Eine 'Erledigung'? Texte, Analysen, Kommentar.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Die Fackel ins wunde Herz: Kraus uber Heine. Eine 'Erledigung'? Texte, Analysen, Kommentar. By DIETMAR GOLTSCHNIGG. (Passagen Literaturtheorie) Vienna: Passagen-Verlag. 2000. 496 pp. 966.
An avowed aim of this book, which takes issue with Karl Kraus scholars for playing down anti-Semitic elements in his discourse, is to contextualize Kraus's well-known polemic 'Heine und die Folgen' (1910); we might add: for the benefit of Heine scholars. To this end, over half of this book comprises text extracts on Heine from Kraus's writings, from the very first issues of his journal Die Fackel in 1899 to Dritte Walpurgisnacht in 1933, the posthumously published polemic on the ...