German Quarterly, October 1st, 2005
Kortländer, Bernd. Heinrich Heine. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2003. 367 pp. euro8.80 paperback.
While asserting from the outset that any biographical account must strictly adhere to the "facts," Bernd Kortländer contends that this is not the best approach when dealing with Heine, whom he calls "ein Konstrukteur, ein Spieler auch mit dem Material der eignen Biographie... " (10). The Heine under consideration in his study is not so much a historical figure, but a "Kunstfigur" (13). Thus, when Kortländer asserts that scholars should take Heine wörtlich, he does not mean that we should take Heine "at...
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