SOURCE: Bauke, Joseph. “Inferno Revisited.” Saturday Review 49, no. 41 (8 October 1966): 106-07.

In the following review, Bauke describes reading Attendance List for a Funeral as a sobering and enlightening experience.

In the last five or six years German literature has made the comeback for which readers in and outside Germany had been waiting since the fall of the Third Reich. Günter Grass and Jakov Lind, above all, have revived a language that seemed all but dead and unfit for any artistic purposes, after the uses to which it was put under Hitler. In their work these authors descend into the hell of the past and reflect their vision of it in a profusion of surrealistic images that has compelled the attention of audiences in many countries. In his collection of short stories, Attendance List for a Funeral, Alexander Kluge demonstrates that there are other ways of exorcising the evil...