Kurt Wolff

A Portrait in Essays and Letters

By: Kurt Wolff, Michael Ermarth (Editor), Deborah Lucas Schneider (Translator)

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Paperback | 16 October 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Kurt Wolff (1887â"1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that took him from Weimar Germany to New York City, where he founded Pantheon Books, Wolff nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salom©, Boris Pasternak, G¼nter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Val©ry, Julian Green, Giuseppe Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. His essays and letters, many published here for the first time in English, illuminate the complex relationsâ"between publisher and author, publisher and editor, publisher and reading publicâ"that work at their best, as in Wolffâs case, to sustain culture.

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"Pure oxygen and nutrition for exhausted and demoralized editors and publishers. One of the prophetic publishers of the century---Kurt Wolff instances in these modest reminiscences and correspondence with authors (Kafka, Werfel, Kraus, Rilke, Mann, Pasternak, Grass, et al.) the vision and devotion that bound them to him and that made him-the secret of his calling-'synonymous with his work.'" (Nation) "The invaluable correspondence, intoxicating recollections, and, best of all, engaging voice of perhaps this century's most discriminating publisher." (New York Times Book Review)"

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