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...something about him hinted at fame. Benefactors sent the adolescent to school, where Hans decided to become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine, who observed Andersen in action, called the writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas...
...business of judging people--and Heinrich Boll is--then you had better be precise. If you feel guilty for the war crimes of your Nazi countrymen, you won't work it out by heaping blame on the girl who wove wreathes for dead Party bosses or on the man who has lost an eye and a leg for Germany and filched gold teeth from American corpses for himself. You had better plot dates and crimes, X's and Y's, and allegations against counter-allegations, until you determine who, in the sum of suffering, has done what to whom...
...life-history of Leni Pfeiffer, who was in her early twenties during the war years and whose experiences of the late 1930s and 40s are bound up--she is a German citizen--with the progress of the Third Reich. There are plenty of witnesses to Leni's development, but Heinrich Boll would certainly have trusted none of them with the narration of Group Portrait With Lady, his book about Leni. The man he does empower, as persona, to find the facts about Leni is a late-middle-aged man who identifies himself as the Author...
...late to complain about Irving Stone, who provides novelized biographies for readers who want Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo to wear boxer shorts and talk like members of the local school board. Perhaps that is why Stone, in his latest book, persistently calls the historical Heinrich Schliemann "Henry...
Many of the German contributions, such as Heinrich Campendock's woodcut of a sinister fairy tale world, show the influence of a melancholy expressionism. Max Beckmann turns his acerbic melancholy on German society in "Wrestling Match:" a joyful orchestra accompanies two headlocked wrestlers in front of high society onlookers who hoot from gilded balconies or eat delicacies at tables bordering the fight. In a lighter vein, Franz Marc characteristically uses animal symbolism in his woodcut "Creation." Lighter still is Dadaist Kurt Schwitters' "Composition with Profile," a well-composed, child-like doodling...