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• W4210471505 abstract "286 Reviews Briefe 1924-1952. By Anna Seghers. Ed. by Christiane Zehl Romero and Almut Giesecke. (Werkausgabe, v/i) Berlin: Aufbau. 2008. 747 pp. 36. ISBN 978-3-351-03473-3. Anna Seghers was a prolific correspondent, and more than 600 of her letters are extant covering the years 1924-1952. Given the disruptions of exile and war, it is highly likely thatmany others of importance have been lost, and an unspecified number of a private nature remain inaccessible at thewish of Seghers's family.The 251 letters included in this volume therefore comprise a selection, but one which ismore substantial and editorially ambitious than anything previously available. The volume affords invaluable fresh insights into Seghers's intellectual and emo tional life.The three remarkable letters with which itopens, allwritten toher future husband in 1924-25 and signed 'Dein Kind', show a young woman already as emo tionally dependent on Laszlo Radvanyi as shewould always remain, troubled by a debilitating lack of direction inher lifeand yet already aware thatwriting offers the sense of purpose she seeks. Those written after the rise ofHitler reveal Seghers's private concerns both as a wife and mother and as a writer during a succession of crisesmarked by flight, exile in France, renewed flight,and a second period of exile in Mexico. So often dashed offunder extreme pressure, many betray the strain: Tch habe das Gefuhl, ichwar ein Jahr lang tot gewesen', she confesses in 1941 (p. 106). Even after her post-war return to a physically and morally blighted Germany, Seghers's lettershave something of the same harassed, unpolished breathlessness and are typically 'nur gerad hingehauen', as she confesses to Lore Wolf in 1947 (p. 258). The relatively few letters consciously written with later publication in mind, including her exchanges with Lukacs during the debate on realism in 1938 39, are scheduled to appear in the volumes of essays which Aufbau plan as part of their excellent Werkausgabe. What the letters lack in literary polish they certainly make up for in vibrant immediacy. At one level they serve as eine Art Gesellschaftsersatz' (p. 58) in the loneliness of exile and of the immediate post-war years, but Seghers's wholehearted support for the anti-Fascist and Socialist cause always shines through. A series of letters in the mid-1930s document her attempt, in collaboration with Lion Feuchtwanger, to assemble a volume commemorating prominent victims ofNazi brutality.When this project failed, largely because her Communist colleagues did not match her commitment, shewas not slow to express her displeasure toWilli Bredel inMoscow. Other letters reveal that Seghers could be no less self-assertive in promoting her own literary interests, occasionally to the irritation of even her most loyal correspondents. While the lack of sentimentalitywhich she saw as one of her qualities can occasionally shade into insensitivity,her lettersdocument above all her admirable determination to prove not just a loyalmother, wife, and friend but also a productive writer, however desperate the circumstances. Even on the day the Second World War broke out, her creative spiritwas as indomitable as ever: MLR, 105.1, 2010 287 Tch habe die schonsten Plane, nie habe ich, nie hatte ich so gut wie jetzt arbeiten konnen' (p. 59). University of Bath Ian Wallace Weimar on thePacific: German Exile Culture inLos Angeles and theCrisis of Mo dernism. By Ehrhard Bahr. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press. 2007. 378 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25128-1. This is a wonderful book, at least in parts?extended parts at that. It is not at all a mere collection of biographical anecdotes of the numerous prominent German exiles who found themselves inCalifornia in the 1930s and 1940s?though these themselves are often fascinating; rather, as one might expect from this author (now a distinguished professor emeritus ofGerman atUCLA), it is a serious tanglewith the implications of that portentous subtitle. It is also a personal book, enriched by a vivid sense of real encounters. Ehrhard Bahr was a young German scholar at Berkeley in the 1960s who, when he took his first teaching job at UCLA, felt compelled to confront the strangeness of the high modernist clash with Southern Californian culture. He met second- and third-generation..." @default.
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