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COPYRIGHT 2001 Modern Humanities Research Association
Johnsons 'Jahrestage': Der Kommentar. Ed. by Holger Helbig and others.. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1999. 1133 pp. DM 178.
Uwe Johnson's novel Jahrestage (4 vols, 1970-1983) is 1891 pages long, in the first edition. Its final volume was published with Rolf Michaelis's concordance of names and places in the novel, which many readers and scholars have since used profitably, and no doubt many have scribbled their own pencil additions and corrections on its pages. Scribbling useful further information on this new reference work on Jahrestage will be much more of a challenge.
This is a line-by-line commentary unravelling references to real places, events and people in Johnson's novel, and it is certainly a milestone in nitty-gritty Johnson research, as well as a remarkable publication in contemporary German...
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