Description: The volume provides a history of the genre in the 20th century, covering the entire German-speaking area and extending from prestigious examples all the way down to more trivial instances. Alongside the traditional forms, the study also explores aph
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"Spicker goes where the aphorisms are. [..] Spicker's book is a major contribution to the study of the aphorism, exhaustively detailing its manifestations in various periods and movements and admirably demonstrating its power in a century obsessed with power to the point of impotence."
Adrian del Caro in: German Studies Review 1/2008