Stefan George in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Aneignung – Umdeutung – Ablehnung. Aneignung – Umdeutung – Ablehnung. Von Achim Aurnhammer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. xiv + 513 Seiten + 28 farbige Abbildungen. $103.99 gebunden oder eBook.

is inconsistent; whereas the chapters on Walser and Bernhard clearly intervene in existing scholarly debates, the chapter on Mann only cites a small handful of secondary sources, focusing instead on philosophical intertexts. In short, the strong close readings and philosophical insights of Pseudo-Memoirs should be of interest to a number of discursive communities that are not themselves cited in the book. The literary eccentrics studied here have been gathered together before (in part due to Sebald’s own open indebtedness to Walser and Bernhard), but Tobias’s highly original and creative philosophical argument makes it a gathering worth attending.