Title: A Dubious Work
Review: No matter what the editors' & contributors' intent was or wasn't with this "New History", it has failed and disqualified itself by ignoring the following writers, to name only those that loom largest: Angelus Silesius, Johannes Beer, Hoffmann v. Hoffmannswaldau, Hebel, Lenau, Platen, Morgenstern, Lasker-Schueler, Robert Walser, Tucholsky, Arno Schmidt, Wolfgang Koeppen, Doderer, Erich Kaestner, Strittmatter, Aichinger, Bobrowski. Women writers are largely absent, as well as the literature of exile.Is one to find solace for these omissions by noting 26 references for Hitler in the index? No, this is not a 'new' history, this is not a 'history' at all.
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