Richard Block is assistant professor of Germanics and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is co-editor of The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in Honor of Geza von Molnar (Northwestern University Press, 2000) and translator of Peter Burger's The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism (Northwestern University Press, 2002).'

The Spell of Italy is a bracing, invigorating, fast-paced study of the image of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. - Robert Tobin, Whitman College

Richard Block is assistant professor of Germanics and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is co-editor of The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in Honor of Geza von Molnar (Northwestern University Press, 2000) and translator of Peter Burger's The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism (Northwestern University Press, 2002).'

The Spell of Italy is a bracing, invigorating, fast-paced study of the image of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. - Robert Tobin, Whitman College

Richard Block is assistant professor of Germanics and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is co-editor of The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in Honor of Geza von Molnar (Northwestern University Press, 2000) and translator of Peter Burger's The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism (Northwestern University Press, 2002).'

The Spell of Italy is a bracing, invigorating, fast-paced study of the image of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. - Robert Tobin, Whitman College