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Article: Hermann Hesse als Literaturkritiker.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2007
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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, Erich Kastner wrote 350 and Kurt Tucholsky around 500 book reviews.
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