“It starts like a theatrical comedy, Lotte in Weimar: with the arrival of a well-built elderly lady who disturbs the inn of the small capital where she is staying... It begins like a theatrical comedy, like a game around Goethe, who appears much later, meanwhile a venerable artist...” wrote Thomas Mann in the spring of 1940, clearly satisfied with the story he had begun writing seven years earlier and which was published in 1939.
From the very beginning of writing, Thomas Mann was certain: “Something special will definitely come out of it, I can feel it already, and it will evolve into a beautiful little book.” He began in November 1933, having just completed the third volume of his Joseph tetralogy, and wrote this story about the woman Goethe had fallen in love with in his youth, the immortal figure of Lotte from Werther, who cannot resist the temptation to meet Goethe again after forty-four years.
“And he sees her, a little annoyed, she sees him, a little disappointed and mysteriously moved by this somewhat strange reunion after half a century,” describes the scene of the meeting in the home of the “prince of poets” by Stefan Zweig.
Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck in northern Germany and lived in Munich from 1893. In 1933, he left Germany and initially lived in Switzerland, near Lake Zurich, and later in the USA, where he became a professor at Princeton, and subsequently moved to California. He later returned to Switzerland. He died on August 12, 1955, in Zurich.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Publisher
- Exantas
- Original Title
- Lotte in Weimar
- Publishers
- Sextant
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 654
- Release Date
- 11/2000
- Publication Date
- 2000
- Dimensions
- 11x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602562277
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