Kommerell on Don Quixote

As late as October 15, 1966, Strauss says he plans to read Max Kommerell’s 1940 Lessing und Aristoteles which he says he “expect[s] to be very good” (letter to Seth Benardete). The library. (The library circulation card in the book pocket of the University of Chicago library copy shows that Chris Bruell, Strauss’s research assistant, checked out the boo…