Last but not least: Whoever messes with the literature pope...
Literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki remains true to his approach—criticism—but is breaking with a decades-long tradition: his collaboration with the Frankfurt-based Suhrkamp Verlag. He says he feels «treated poorly» by the publisher.
Literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki remains true to his line - criticizing - but breaks with decades of tradition - his collaboration with Frankfurt's Suhrkamp Verlag. He feels "badly treated" by the publisher because he asked the publisher, Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz, to release his book "Mein Schiller". However, the publisher had invoked the contract and refused. Having to deal with her was "torture", Reich-Ranicki announced on Weltonline. His new series on great authors will therefore be published by Hoffmann und Campe Hamburg.
The Suhrkamp publishing house has therefore made a mess of things with the literary pope, although he, tireless as he is, still has a few works in the pipeline: "My Heine", "My Lessing", "My Kleist", "My Books", "My Kafka"... So we can only hope that Reich-Ranicki will be able to concentrate fully on high-quality literature in future and no longer have to be annoyed black and blue by any "nonsense". His relentless mission to provide the world with "sensible, intelligent books and newspapers" is taking its toll and certainly not stopping at Suhrkamp Verlag.
The Suhrkamp publishing house has therefore made a mess of things with the literary pope, although he, tireless as he is, still has a few works in the pipeline: "My Heine", "My Lessing", "My Kleist", "My Books", "My Kafka"... So we can only hope that Reich-Ranicki will be able to concentrate fully on high-quality literature in future and no longer have to be annoyed black and blue by any "nonsense". His relentless mission to provide the world with "sensible, intelligent books and newspapers" is taking its toll and certainly not stopping at Suhrkamp Verlag.
