For the novellas included in Volume V/1 this installment (V/2) contains first all the extant manuscript versions of the text and the variants in the printed editions, second a description of their genesis and the forms in which they have come down to us, including brief analyses of these texts, and third commentaries on individual passages most of which are taken from contemporary works. As Eichendorff's nachlass is largely destroyed or missing many of the text versions are difficult to reconstruct, not least in their chronology. Apart from a first outline we at least have a manuscript of the first two chapters of the »Taugenichts«; but only for the »Marmorbild« do we have a richer text corpus, notably a late complete manuscript version. Altogether the volume is the product of an attempt to piece together an intricate puzzle for which many of the pieces are missing. As it stands, it does however present all the extant text material and in so doing will hopefully be conducive to new insights.