Abstract
This chapter reveals the author's distaste with having seen his work linked with National Socialism. A comparison was drawn between its destructive activities in the realm of culture and the author's early satire, Die demolirte Literatur. The comparison with National Socialism was decidedly in the author's favour, for his demolition was said to distinguish itself from the current amateurish destruction of literature in Berlin by its “unprecedented intellectual verve” and “tremendous satirical power,” though it was veritable child's play compared with his subsequent critique of the direction German writing has taken. Since then, the author has said about a print culture that is in the hands of people who have failed in other professions. Today, for all the appreciation of that work, the parallel with National Socialism is thought to be that its targets “survived being sentenced to demolition.” Still, it remains to be seen whether their fellow writers will survive the judgement passed on them over the years in Die Fackel.
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