Hans Henny Jahnn: This Space

Friday, September 27, 2013

This Space

This Space discusses Hans Henny Jahnn and points to Noor de Winter's essay in Reliquiae

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Anonymous said...: In case this blog might get updated some day, I'd like to draw your attention to the recent review of Die Niederschrift by the Modern Novel at http://www.themodernnovel.com/german/jahnn/horn.htm; February 3, 2014 at 9:23 AM

Hans Henny Jahnn (1894 - 1959)

"Writer, playwright, renowned for his rediscovery and publishing of baroque music, organ builder and restorer, hormone researcher! The basic motto of the trilogy of novels from which this story comes was "The living are few, the dead many." Stories often appeared in his novels, with no warning and no apparent connection to their context, this text [Kebad Kenya] being a case in point. Jahnn was a unique writer who rejected conventional morals and institutions and conjured up a pan-eroticism and anti-civilisatory standpoint, where time and place melt and merge. He has never been widely popular but is often cited as one of the most important German writers of this century."

--Bio from Atlas's Black Letters Unleashed anthology.

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