'Fur eine aufmerksamereund nachdenklichere Welt': Beitrage zu Marie Luise Kaschnitz.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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'Fur eine aufmerksamereund nachdenklichere Welt': Beitrage zu Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Ed. by DIRK GOTTSCHE. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler. 2001. 220 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 3-476-45274-3 (pbk).

This volume, born out of a conference to celebrate what would have been Marie Luise Kaschnitz's hundredth birthday, seeks to rescue the writer from relative obscurity. Kaschnitz won almost all the literary prizes of the Bundesrepublik, including the Buchner Prize (1955), and her significance was compared in 1973, in a Handbuch edited by Benno von Wiese, to that of Ingeborg Bachmann. However, the comparison is instructive. While Bachmann has seemed to become...

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