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Martin Walser (born 1927) is one of the most prolific contemporary German novelists, and one with a place in world literature. His work provides an astute critical commentary in novelistic form on postwar Germany. The present volume comprises essays by eleven Walser experts on various aspects of his writings, with concentration on the novels of the last 15 years, books such as Runaway Horse (1978), The Inner Man (1979), The Swan Villa (1980), Letter to Lord Liszt (1982), and In Defense of Childhood (1991). Parallels and influences discussed in these studies include Schiller, Richardson, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Updike, Brecht, and Walter Kempowski.
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The re-establishment of the German class society, Wulf Koepke; Walser's working heroes, Keith Bullivant; relations in Bertolt Brecht, Martin Walser and Volker Braun, Siegfried Mews; Martin Walser's Californian novel "Breakers", Bernd Fischer; Martin Walser's "Breakers" and Walter Kempowski's "Dog Days", Frank Pilipp; "Letter to Lord Liszt" as an epistolatory novel, Richard H. Lawson; Walser's "Letter to Lord Liszt" and Hofmannsthal's "Letter of Lord Chandos", Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf; Martin Walser's Schiller, Alexander Mathas; Martin Walser's literary essays, Steve Dowden; Alfred Dorn in "Die Verteidigung der Kindheit", Gertrud B. Pickar; "Die Verteidigung der Kindheit", Heike A. Doane.
