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Wolfgang Koeppen praised the book as “one of the novels of this century most worth reading,”8 but Marcel Reich-Ranicki described it as an unappealing mixture of falsehoods and kitsch.9 Its commercial success—prepublication serialization in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, high sales figures, promising plans for a film version—allowed Andersch to dismiss adverse reviews at first as the gripes of envious journalists, particularly since Reich-Ranicki did not then exert such great influence as he would a few years later. Largely undeterred, although intent now on a degree of sobriety, Andersch sought to consolidate his claim to fame, as his minor works of the first half of the 1960s show—radio plays, short stories, essays, travelogues.
Koeppen elogió el libro como «una de las novelas más dignas de ser leídas de este siglo»;[123] Reich-Ranicki, en cambio, la describió como una mezcla poco apetecible de mentiras y kitsch[124]. El éxito comercial —prepublicación en el Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, altas cifras de venta, planes prometedores de filmación— permitió a Andersch al principio hacer caso omiso de las críticas destructivas calificándolas de producto de periodistas envidiosos, sobre todo porque Reich-Ranicki no tenía entonces la influencia que tendría años después.
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