Notes
STRANGENESS, INTEGRATION, AND CRISIS
1 Peter Handke, Kaspar, Frankfurt 1969, p. 12 Eng., Plays: 1, Kaspar, tr. Michael Roloff, New York and London, 1969, 1972, p. 57.
2 Jakob Wassermann, Caspar Hauser, Frankfurt, 1968, p. 5; Eng., Caspar Hauser, tr. Michael Hulse, Harmondsworth, Eng., 1992, p. 3.
3 Friedrich Nietzsche, Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Stuttgart, 1964, p. 101; Eng., Unmodern Observations, ed. W. Arrowsmith, New Haven and London, 1990, p. 88.
4 Ibid., p. 109; Eng., p. 91.
5 Caspar Hauser, p. 16; Eng., p. 13.
6 Ibid.; Eng., p. 14.
7 Cf. Kaspar, p. 99; Eng., Kaspar, p. 139; Caspar Hauser, p. 20; Eng., p. 18; Rudolf Bilz, Studien über Angst und Schmerz — Paläoanthropologie vol. 1/2, Frankfurt, 1961, p. 278.
8 Franz Kafka, Erzählungen, Frankfurt, 1961, p. 158; Eng., Stories 1904–1924, tr. J.A. Underwood, New York, 1981, p. 222.
9 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Terzinen—Über die Vergänglichkeit, Frankfurt, 1957, p. 16.
10 David Cooper, Death of the Family, London, 1971, p. 11.
11 Peter Handke, “Die Dressur der Objekte,” in Ich bin ein Bewohner des Elfenbeinturms, Frankfurt, 1972, p. 145.
12 Ibid., p. 144.
13 Ibid., p. 145.
14 Peter Handke, Ritt über den Bodensee, Frankfurt, 1972, p. 95; Eng., Plays: I, The Ride Across Lake Constance, tr. Michael Roloff, London, 1973, p. 227.
15 Cf. Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Berlin, 1930, p. 496; Eng., The Man Without Qualities, tr. E. Wilkins and E. Kaiser, London, 1954, vol. II, p. 318.
16 Kaspar, p. 20; Eng., p. 64.
17 Ibid., p. 21; Eng., p. 65.
18 Lars Gustafsson, “Die Maschinen,” in Utopien, Munich, 1970, p. 39.
19 Kaspar, p. 50; Eng., p. 93f.
20 Ibid., p. 75f.; Eng., p. 117f.
21 Ibid., p. 55; Eng., p. 99.
22 This and the two following quotations are from ibid., p. 56; Eng., p. 100.
23 Ibid., p. 57; Eng., p. 101.
24 This and the following quotation are from ibid., p. 58; Eng., pp. 101, 102.
25 This and the following quotation are from ibid., p. 92; Eng., p. 133.
26 Ibid., p. 31; Eng., p. 75.
27 This and the following quotation are from ibid., p. 93.
28 Ibid., p. 100f.; Eng., p. 140.
29 From the introduction to the German version of David Cooper, Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry (London, 1967); Ger. Psychiatrie und Antipsychiatrie (Frankfurt, 1971), p. ii.
30 Peter Handke, Wunschloses Unglück, Frankfurt, 1974, p. 48; Eng., A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, tr. Ralph Manheim, London, 1976, p. 31.
31 Ernst Cassirer, Sprache und Mythos, Studien der Bibliothek Warburg, Leipzig and Berlin, 1925, p. 5; Eng., Language and Myth, tr. Susanne E. Langer, New York, 1946, pp. 6–7.
BETWEEN HISTORY AND NATURAL HISTORY
1 Heinrich Böll, Hierzulande — Aufsätze zur Zeit, Munich, 1963, p. 128.
2 Günter Eich, 1907–72, poet and playwright; Paul Celan (pseudonym of Paul Antschel), 1920–70, poet; Wolfgang Borchert, 1921–47, poet, actor, writer of plays and short stories; Hans Erich Nossack, 1901–77, novelist, wrote on the air raids of the Second World War in Der Untergang, much quoted in the present work; Ernst Kreuder, 1903–72, journalist and novelist; Ilse Aichinger, b. 1921, novelist, writer of plays and short stories; Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 1920–89, novelist and literary critic; Hans Werner Richter, 1908–93, novelist; Walter Kolbenhoff (pseudonym of Walter Hoffmann), 1908–93, novelist; Rolf Schroers, 1919–81, writer; Elisabeth Langgässer, 1899–1950, poet, novelist, and essayist; Karl Krolow, 1915–99, poet; Siegfried Lenz, b. 1926, novelist; Arno Schmidt, 1914–79, novelist, essayist, and critic; Alfred Andersch, 1914–80, novelist and essayist; Walter Jens, b. 1923, novelist and essayist; Marie Luise von Kaschnitz, 1901–74, novelist and poet.
3 Heinrich Böll, Frankfurter Vorlesungen, Munich, 1968, p. 121.
4 Hans Erich Nossack, “Er wurde zuletzt ganz durchsichtig — Erinnerungen an Hermann Kasack,” in Pseudoautobiographische Glossen, Frankfurt, 1971, p. 50. The text was first published in Hamburg in 1966 in the Jahrbuch der Freien Akademie der Künste.
5 In the essay cited above, Nossack speaks of its being an international success. See ibid., p. 50.
6 Hermann Kasack, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, Frankfurt, 1978, p. 18.
7 Ibid., p. 10.
8 A term coined by Nossack, in “Er wurde zuletzt …,” p. 152.
9 Kasack, Die Stadt, p. 152.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 154.
12 Ibid., p. 142.
13 Ibid., p. 314.
14 Ibid., p. 315. Arno Schmidt’s prose work of 1949, Leviathan oder die beste der Welten, rests upon comparable juggling with contemporary reality. In this work, the theory of the successive self-realization of a negative cosmic principle is presented with physical and philosophical sophistry.
15 Cf. Nossack, “Er wurde zuletzt …,” p. 47: “Real literature was a secret language at the time.”
16 Die Stadt, p. 348.
17 Hans Erich Nossack, “Der Untergang,” in Interview mit dem Tode, Frankfurt, 1972, pp. 209, 225.
18 Ibid., p. 233.
19 Ibid., p. 230.
20 Ibid., p. 229.
21 Ibid., p. 210.
22 Ibid., p. 209.
23 This quotation is from the autobiographical essay Dies lebenlose Leben (“This Lifeless Life”), in which Nossack describes his time under the Fascist regime. It refers to a former fellow student who took his own life in 1933 because he wanted to be among the victims.
24 See in particular Canetti’s Crowds and Power, Weiss’s Abschied von den Eltern (“Farewell to My Parents”), and Hildesheimer’s Tynset.
25 Nossack, op. cit., p. 193 (the “classical” figure embodying this attitude is probably Pastor Helander, who dies with his boots on in Alfred Andersch’s novel Sansibar oder der letzte Grund (“Zanzibar: Or, the Last Reason”), dubious as that book is in many respects); Pseudoautobiographische Glossen, p. 21.