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Hugo Aust themselves at the extremes of the argument, Burkhard Spinnen, for instance, in one of seven original essays included at the end toview the debate from fresh perspectives, attempts a mediating röle between "die eine Literatur, die sich zeitlos und nach innen gewandt gibt" and "die andere Literatur, die auf die öffentlichen Zustände zielt" (pp. 221-222), pointing out the surely obvious truth that these categories do not have to be opposites. But there seems little prospect of common ground when one side can refer contemptuously to "die selbstgefällige Sturheit der Altavantgardisten" (p. 71) and the other claim that their opponents embody "die Spezies des bundesdeutschen Kleinbürgers" (p. 148). One recalls the comment once made, in another context, by one of Günter Grass's characters concerning the German proclivity for going "von einem Extrem ins andere",1 a characteristic which some of the personal attacks launched in particular upon Grass himself here ("als Künstler seit langem überfordert" [p. 137]) seem only to confirm. Andrea Köhler and Rainer Moritz, by bringing together the different Strands of the argument, have done a Service in clarifying what is truly, äs Michael Schneider concludes, "eine wundervoll deutsche Debatte" (p. 262), upon which one looks
Arbitrium - Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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