Notes to Literature. Volume Two

New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XX, 350pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Fascinating work containing volumes three and four of "Noten zur Literatur, including numerous essays on works by Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Karl Kraus, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. Also included are Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary topics: the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, books' titles, the lighthearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing, to name a few. Wrappers in overall very good, binding and interior in fine condition.