Books by Peter Szondi

An analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. This brief but wide-ranging book discusses the work of such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Satre, Brecht and Wilder.

Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marks the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century.

This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.

Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics: this is the first English translation of his important lectures on hermeneutics. He traces the historical development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of German Enlightenment theorists, and explores its relevance for the contemporary critic.