Part 1: A-L ; Lou Andreas-Salome -- Otto Julius Bierbaum -- Rudolf G. Binding -- Hans Friedrich Blunck -- Rudolf Borchardt -- Hans Carossa -- Alfred Doblin -- Kurt Eisner -- Paul Ernst -- Lion Feuchtwanger -- Hans Grimm -- Carl Hauptmann -- Gerhardt Hauptman -- Hermann Hesse -- Friedrich Huch -- Ricarda Huch -- Eduard von Keyserling -- Klabund (Alfred Henschke) -- Annette Kolb -- Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer -- Isolde Kurz -- Else Lasker-Schuler -- Gertrude von le Fort -- Part 2: M-Z ; Heinrich Mann -- Thomas Mann -- Kurt Martens -- Alfons Paquet -- Stanislaw Przybyszewski -- Gabriele Reuter -- Franziska Grafin zu Reventlow -- Albrecht Schaeffer -- Rene Schickele -- Hermann Stehr -- Ludwig Thoma -- Clara Viebig -- Robert Walser -- Jakob Wassermann -- Arnold Zweig -- Appendix: historical and cultural premises of German fiction
Summary
Essays on German fiction writers whose works are representative of the pre-World War I Germany and Austria through the decade after the end of World War II. Focuses on writers of prose fiction as well as poets and dramatists who also wrote significant prose fiction. Frequently includes previously unavailable information on these writers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-653) and index
