Fifty-one years ago today the great Hans Mayer -- about as influential (and well/widely-read) a non-fiction writer on me as George Steiner -- wrote in Die Zeit on Die Bücherwelt und Arno Schmidt -- noting:
Schade, daß man nicht lesen kann, wie ein künftiger Arno Schmidt in hundert Jahren über Arno Schmidt urteilen wird.Just over half way there, I'm afraid my own effort falls well short of Schmidtian levels of assessment -- but it's good fun, and a good starting point on the too-overlooked author: Schmidt is certainly worth starting on (so get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk, etc. ...).
[Too bad that one can't read how a future Arno Schmidt will judge Arno Schmidt a hundred years from now.]