Snow

Hah, here's one for doing comp. lit.
I've been finding Stifter everywhere I look lately.

The most recent thing has been Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

The very first chapter chronicles a poet on a journey from Istanbul to Kars, into a blizzard.

Two things: the name "Kars" also evokes the Berg "Gars" of the Bergkristall, the site of a blizzard.

Aus dem bairischen Wald also seems relevant here, but I need to keep reading.


With more time and funding than exists, I think it would be fun to do a diss entirely about "Snow in German lit." What a blast that would be. Those winters over there in Deutschland have to be good for something, why not appropriate them for all the pain they give people.