Group 47: The Reflected Intellect (A Chicago Classic) - Hardcover

Mandel, Siegfried

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809306417 ISBN 13: 9780809306411

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973

Synopsis

This is the first complete and comprehen­sive book in English on the important postwar German writers known as Group 47. The group,” established in 1947 after the newspaper Der Ruf was banned, was inspired by a belief in the effectiveness of literature to change society, and for two decades served as initiator of new trends and barometer of changing literary tastes and social conditions.

 

There are so many important writers connected with the group that Mandel had divided his book into chapters cover­ing the various genres produced, but has considered in detail the works of major writers while discussing many lesser ones.

 

Mandel’s book is, therefore, a history of German postwar literature and its ideology, and also a critical encyclopedia of individual authors.

About this title

About the Author:

Siegfried Mandel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Univer­sity of Colorado, is the author of Rainer Maria Rilke and editor of Contemporary European Novelists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0809306417
• ISBN 13: 9780809306411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248