It has recently become fashionable again to reflect on world literature, meaning, above all, focusing on the universal exchange of ideas within the literary discourse, because we find ourselves today increasingly in a global framework and are challenged to jettison our traditionally exclusive western perspective and to operate with many more voices from past and present, and in all countries of the world. Goethe had already famously talked about Weltliteratur (1827) in very general terms, and he pursued numerous approaches to this phenomenon himself,