Morgan Meis at Lapham’s Quarterly:
The book I bought is an English translation of letters written by the painter Franz Marc to his wife, Maria. It is a thin hardcover volume published by Peter Lang as part of the American University Studies series. The edition of the book that I’ve got has about six different fonts on the front cover. Some words are in italics and some words are not. The sizes of the fonts vary considerably as well. It’s as if a small child got into the final layout for the book just before it went to press and started changing things according to a game she was playing in her head.
The letters published in the book were originally written between September 1914 and March 1916. The letters ceased abruptly on March 4, 1916. This was the day Marc was hit in the head by a shell fragment at the Battle of Verdun. He survived the initial impact but didn’t live for much longer. He was thirty-six years old.
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