Arno Holz (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Literary history recognizes Arno Holz as the cofounder and first important author and theorist of Naturalism in Germany. In the novella, Papa Hamlet (1889; coauthored with Johannes Schlaf, under the pseudonym Bjarne P. Holmsen), Holz contrasts the horrid living conditions and death of an unemployed Shakespearean actor and his family with the idealistic verses which the actor constantly recites. His play, Die Familie Selicke (pr., pb. 1890), is a bleak tragedy, ridiculed by traditional critics as “primitive animal grunts of an ape theater,”...
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