SOURCE; "One Man's Merz," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3808, February 28, 1975, p. 231.

In the following review, Last describes Schwitters's short prose works "Die Zwiebel" and "Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling. "

Like many of that generation of the European avant-garde associated with Dada and Surrealism, Kurt Schwitters worked in several artistic media and sought to break down the barriers between the different art forms, and also between what convention deemed to be "art" and "non-art". Although something of a loner, in that he did not join any large group of artists, but preferred to work in relative isolation, cultivating "Merz", his own brand of Dada, Schwitters's work broadly follows a pattern typical of his breed of artistic revolutionary: he painted, sculpted, produced collages, typographical designs, sound and concrete poems—and also prose. This last may come as something of a surprise.

Among the other Dadaists continuous prose is a...