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Coping with Fritz Haber's Somber Literary Shadow
Author(s) -
Hoffmann Roald,
Laszlo Pierre
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20011217)40:24<4599::aid-anie4599>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , art , psychoanalysis , psychology , art history , psychotherapist
Picture(s) of Fritz Haber : Rolf Hochhuth, Tony Harrison, and André Malraux—three very different writers—have portrayed Fritz Haber in their novels and plays. The picture may not please chemists. Several biographies and an essay by the historian Fritz Stern have also dealt with Haber's tragic life. Should we accept these as literary portraits, if they are not to our liking? Or struggle with them? And in Haber's case would this be justified?