A Companion to German Literature

The whole modern conception of literature seems to owe a great deal to Immanuel Kant who spent his life in Konigsberg, which is now in Russia. The man who is widely considered the greatest imaginative writer of German in the twentieth century ‐ Franz Kafka ‐ will be forever associated with Prague. The most renowned living German writer ‐ Günter Grass ‐ hails from what is now Gdánsk, Poland. Eda Sagarra and Peter Skrine believe that students of German literature must think beyond “the barriers which, from the mid‐nineteenth century onwards, have separated the Europe of nationalities from its older...