Black Letters Unleashed – Purple humour, desperate beauty and improbable blasphemies: an anthology of more extraordinary strain of German literature, visionaries, mannerists and extremists of all sorts

Black Letters Unleashed: 300 Years of 'Enthused' Writing in German, Ed. by Malcolm Green, Atlas Press, 1989.





Contributors: Johann Nestroy, Max Stirner, Gerhard Roth , Friedrich Nietzsche, Heiner Müller, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Oskar Panizza, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Franz Held, Paul Scheerbart, Johannes Fischart, Gustav Meyrink, Adolf Wölfli, Georg Heym, Else Lasker-Schüler, Jakob van Hoddis, Franz Jung, Heinrich Schaefer, George Trakl, Erna Kröner, Ferdinand Hardekopf , Quirinus Kuhlmann, Albert Ehrenstein, Wieland Herzfelde, Kurt Schwitters, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Alfred Döblin, Hans Henny Jahnn, Ilse Aichinger, Gerhard Rühm, Unica Zürn, Paul Celan, Gottfried August Bürger, Wolfgang Bauer, Hans Carl Artmann, Irmtraud Morgner, Christoph Meckel, Günter Brus, Peter Pongratz, Oskar Pastior, Ror Wolf, Ingomar von Kieseritzky, Monica Tornow, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jean-Paul Jacobs, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Novalis, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Grillparzer

"The 1989 Atlas Press book Black Letters Unleashed: 300 Years of 'Enthused' Writing in German (Atlas Anthology No. 6) has become way too scarce. I used to give away copies of it to friends (to paraphrase Gabriel Zaid "giving a book is like giving an obligation")." - A Journey Round My Skull