Description
The book series Studies in the History of German Literature covers the whole spectrum of research into German literary history and comprises monographs and collected volumes on individual epochs from the close of the Middle Ages up to the present day. It presents contributions explicating central concepts from literary history and on individual authors and works.
The literary tradition of friendship ranges from its portrayal in texts to friendships between artists themselves, which can be explored through biographies, correspondence, and memoirs. This volume discusses friendships between authors as well as their texts from Romanticism to the present day. It concludes with an interview with Jan Faktor, who discusses his poetics and the friendships he had in the artist biotope of 1980s Prenzlauer Berg.
Carsten Gansel, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany.
