- Péter Szondi
Péter Szondi [IPA|ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi] (
May 27 ,1929 ,Budapest —November 9 ,1971 ,Berlin ) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalystLéopold Szondi , who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release fromBergen-Belsen . [http://www.szondiforum.org/showdoc.php?id=481]In 1965, he became a Professor at the
Free University of Berlin , where he led the Institute for General and Comparative Literature. His fields were thehistory of literature andcomparative literature .He committed suicide in 1971.
Works
* "Über eine "Freie Universität"." Suhrkamp, 1973
* "Die Theorie des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels im 18. Jahrhundert." Suhrkamp, 1973
* "Celan-Studien." Suhrkamp, 1972
* "Hölderlin-Studien." Insel, 1967
* "Satz und Gegensatz." Insel, 1964
* "Der andere Pfeil" Insel, 1963
* "Versuch über das Tragische" Insel, 1961
* "Theorie des modernen Dramas." Suhrkamp, 1956
* "Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin", reprinted in Benjamin, W (trans.Howard Eiland ), "Berlin Childhood Around 1900", 2006, Belknap Press [Harvard UP] . ISBN 067402222XExternal links
* [http://journal.telospress.com/content/vol2007/issue140/index.dtl Peter Szondi and Critical Hermeneutics] , an issue of "TELOS" (140, Fall 2007)
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