Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism | Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von - Clifford Albrecht Bernd (essay date 1970)

Clifford Albrecht Bernd (essay date 1970)

SOURCE: Bernd, Clifford Albrecht. “Clarity and Obscurity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Judenbuche.” In Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Festschrift for Frederic E. Coenen, edited by Siegfried Mews, pp. 64-77. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

[In the following essay, Bernd assesses the influence of Novelle: Die Schwester, by Droste-Hülshoff's friend and mentor Levin Schücking, on her purposeful use of obscurity in Die Judenbuche. Bernd proposes that the narrative ambiguity drives the readers' awareness of life's inherent mysteries.]

Much that is illuminating has been written on one of the most dense pieces of German narrative in the nineteenth century: Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.¹ But a remarkable clue to the understanding of this elusive Novelle has, it seems,...

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