Editorial note
[Prose]
A Little Excursion to Ajaccio
Campo Santo
The Alps in the Sea
La cour de l’ancienne école
[Essays]
Strangeness, Integration, and Crisis: On Peter Handke’s Play Kaspar
Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction
Constructs of Mourning: Günter Grass and Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Des Häschens Kind, der kleine Has (The Little Hare, Child of the Hare): On the Poet Ernst Herbeck’s Totem Animal
To the Brothel by Way of Switzerland: On Kafka’s Travel Diaries
Dream Textures: A Brief Note on Nabokov
Kafka Goes to the Movies
Scomber scombrus, or the Common Mackerel: On Pictures by Jan Peter Tripp
The Mystery of the Red-Brown Skin: An Approach to Bruce Chatwin
Moments musicaux
An Attempt at Restitution
Acceptance Speech to the Collegium of the German Academy
Notes
Sources of the Text
About the Pictures
About the Author
About the Translator
