First American edition, 1991
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Originally published in German under the title Dichtung
und Religion. Copyright © 1985 by Kindler Verlag GmbH, Munchen

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jens, Walter, 1923-
[Dichtung und Religion. English]
Literature and religion : Pascal, Gryphius, Lessing Hölderlin,
Novalis, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Kafka / Walter Jens, Hans Küng
translated by Peter Heinegg. -- 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Translation of: Dichtung und Religion.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-55778-283-0 (pbk.)
ISBN 1-55778-282-2
1. Religion in literature. I. Küng, Hans, 1928- . II. Title.
PN49.J4613 1990
809'.93382 -- dc20 90-33061
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