![]() ![]() ![]() Readers expecting standard literary biographies will be disappointed, as will those looking for a systematic analysis of each writer's works. Quotations are often unacknowledged or described casually as "from a letter" and, apart from a head-and-shoulders portrait of each writer, graphical illustrations are absent. The text is unsupported by the usual academic buttresses: there is no citation of referenced works, no bibliography, and no appendices. This, the second volume, presents Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche under the title The Struggle with the Daemon. Volume one deals with Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky volume three deals with Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. ![]() This book is the second volume of a remarkable trilogy Master Builders: An Attempt at the Typology of the Spirit, each volume of which presents essays on three European writers, and is thus a trilogy within a trilogy. ![]()
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