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Wilfried Barner, Goethe und Lessing: Eine schwierige Konstellation. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001. 56 pp.
In Goethe und Lessing: Eine schwierige Konstellation, Wilfried Barner focuses on the "curious" distance that manifested itself between Goethe and Lessing in spite of their (or because of their) epoch-making status for eighteenthcentury German letters. Bamer provides a meticulous distillation of their comments about each other, their reactions to one another, comments about them by contemporaries, and the major...