Hofmannsthal: Skizzen zu seinem Bild.(Book review)

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Hofmannsthal: Skizzen zu seinem Bild. By Ulrich Weinzierl. Vienna: Zsolnay. 2005. 320 pp. 21.50 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-552-05340-3.

This is a book unlike any other in the extensive Hofmannsthal literature, and one that no one engaging with Hofmannsthal's biography will be able to ignore. It begins with the issue of documentation, a problem familiar in biographies of creative artists, in which the life often has to be filled out by speculative analogies to contemporary parallels, accounts of historical events and social developments, or interpretative discussions of individual ...

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