Kurt Wolff

Download or read book Kurt Wolff written by Kurt Wolff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-10-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) 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 spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Boris Pasternak, Günter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valéry, Julian Green, Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.