New Lives

APPENDIX

THE SEVEN TEXTS collected in this appendix were found on the reverse side of twenty out of a total of thirty-three letters addressed to Nicoletta Hansen. The right half of each of these manuscript pages was left blank to leave space for corrections. This explains the smaller size of these texts in comparison to the letters they accompany. Although Türmer occasionally mentions his own works in some detail, he never comments directly on what is on the back of his letters. His letter of July 9, 1990, contains the sole reference to these texts: a rather dubious explanation of the origin of these two-sided pages. One might speculate about Türmer’s motives and intentions. I have chosen merely to document the chronological connection between the “reverse pages” and the letters they accompany.

Türmer evidently considered it important that his works be read, otherwise the chronology of the letters would not match the chronology of the individual attempts at fiction. They are printed in the sequence Türmer himself chose.

I. S.