ABSTRACT
Every literary Nachlass — the books and papers an author leaves behind — has its own distinct character. The form this takes is largely a matter of chance, since writers rarely think of organizing their papers for the benefit of posterity, and only a few try to influence the reception of their works by ordering their Nachlass in advance. Those who do, tend more or less naively to indicate those papers which they think are important, while work they do not like or which they consider a failure is designated accordingly — always assuming it is not simply destroyed out ofhand.
