My glancing at bibliographies of books in my extremely long reading list, although it isn't doing the length of the reading list any favors, has been rewarded today by the discovery of a published volume of letters between FW and his BFF Alte Dessauer! (Mostly from FW to AD.)
It's now in the library for any German readers that may be interested.
Some observations: 1. 1905 publication date, with all that entails. 2. 100-page intro on the relationship between FW and Alte Dessauer. 3. The editor takes pity on the reader with heavy use of brackets to spare you FW's spellings, plus spaces between sentences to compensate for the lack of punctuation. You're still on your own with the French, though. Fortunately, there's not much of it. 4. Each letter has a list of topics at the beginning supplied by the editor. Which is good, because it's a thousand pages, and this should help with identifying the interesting letters. 5. The editor seems to be doing a certain amount of summarizing of letter passages that are less interesting and quoting of things that are more interesting to him. *side-eyes* 6. There's a whole section in the intro and at least one letter I saw relating to the Klement conspiracy!
Pleeease someone at least glance at this. :D I'm getting closer, but I'm not there yet.
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Letters from Soul Mates: FW and Alte Dessauer
Date: 2021-12-04 12:36 am (UTC)It's now in the library for any German readers that may be interested.
Some observations:
1. 1905 publication date, with all that entails.
2. 100-page intro on the relationship between FW and Alte Dessauer.
3. The editor takes pity on the reader with heavy use of brackets to spare you FW's spellings, plus spaces between sentences to compensate for the lack of punctuation. You're still on your own with the French, though. Fortunately, there's not much of it.
4. Each letter has a list of topics at the beginning supplied by the editor. Which is good, because it's a thousand pages, and this should help with identifying the interesting letters.
5. The editor seems to be doing a certain amount of summarizing of letter passages that are less interesting and quoting of things that are more interesting to him. *side-eyes*
6. There's a whole section in the intro and at least one letter I saw relating to the Klement conspiracy!
Pleeease someone at least glance at this. :D I'm getting closer, but I'm not there yet.