WTF @ColumbiaUP? Y’all dropped Gottfried Keller, “one of the greatest writers in German of the whole post-Goethian period,” according to the 1947 edition of your Dictionary of Modern European Literature, from the 1980 edition of the same. A shande, I say! Put him back in, nu?

Swiss writer Gottfried Keller, born on 19 July 1819, was a master of the novella form who Kuno Francke, editor of the 1912-1913 German Classics series, called “one of the most original figures since Goethe, a master of style worthy to be classed with the great names of all ages.”

As I wrote in my review of Keller’s novellas, “Keller has written–in ‘Romeo and Juliet of the Village,’ ‘Clothes Make the Man,’ ‘The Lost Smile,’ ‘The Abused Love Letters,’ and ‘Banner of the Upright Seven’–some of the most well-wrought, tender love stories I’ve ever read.”
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“His short stories are really novellas. His first novel, Green Henry [Der Grun Heinrich] sprawls out to over 700 pages. Yet one never feels Keller pads out his narratives. They ripple with instances, funny little essays in which one attribute of a character is proven repeatedly.”