Der Blaue Boll and the Problem of Vision in Barlach

NotesI. W. Lucas, “‘Der blaue Boll’ and the New Man,” GLL, XVI (1963), 238–247.Ernst Barlach, Die Dramen (München, 1956), p. 455. This is the source of all citations from the plays and is referred to hereafter by page number.Boll senses this Mephistophelean element in the Herr’s speech: “Ich möchte Ihren Absichten förderlich und dienstlich sein,” and calls him “ein ausgelernter Satan” (454).Ernst Barlach, Leben und Werk in seinen Briefen, ed. Friedrich Dross (München, 1952), p. 178.Lucas, p. 242.Ernst Barlach, Frühe und späte Briefe, eds. Paul Schurek and Hugo Sieker (Hamburg, 1962), p. 82.Compare the passages on “augenscheinlich gemachte Weltseele” in Die Prosa (München, 1958), I, 334, 406.Cf. my “Ernst Barlach’s ‘Der arme Vetter’: A Study,” MLR, LVII (1962), 373–384.Die Prosa, I, 334. See also the article cited in note 8.Die Prosa (München, 1959), II, 482.Ibid., 504. The ellipses are Barlach’s.Die Prosa, I, 355–356.For a discerning discussion of space and vision in Seespeck see J. W. Mcfarlane, “Plasticity in Language: Some Notes on the Prose Style of Ernst Barlach,” MLR, XLIX (1954), 451–460.This assumes that the six loose pages found in Book 2 of the manuscript contain at least the essence of their dialog. See Die Prosa, I, 501–504.Leben und Werk in seinen Briefen, p. 156. See also pp. 73, 78, 89; and Ernst Barlach, Aus seinen Briefen, ed. Friedrich Dross (München, 1949), p. 59.Frühe und späte Briefe, p. 96

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