Article: Die Tagebucher 1943-1977, 2 vols.

Hans Erich Nossack. Gabriele Sohling, ed. Norbert Miller, afterword. Frankfurt a.M. Suhrkamp. 1997. 1,306 + 370 pages. DM 178. ISBN 3-51-840913-1.

The latest substantial German literary journal to appear before Hans Erich Nossack's Tagebucher 19431977 was Peter Ruhmkorf's Tabu 1: Tagebucher 1989-1991 (1995; see WLT 70:3, p. 687). There could be no starker contrast than between these two: Ruhmkorf's 600-page volume deals with just three momentous recent years; Nossack's journal covers a writer's life. Ruhmkorf (b. 1929) views everything through the eyes of a fervent social critic with Marxist leanings; Nossack (1901-77) seeks the meaning of life independent of, and ...

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