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Lotte Kestner –who inspired Goethe's Lotte in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, with which the young writer gained fame throughout Europe– decides to take a journey "to the land of youth": she arrives in Weimar with the desire to meet again, after nearly half a century, her beloved Goethe.
Her arrival at the city's hotel causes a stir. Everyone wants to see up close the heroine of the great novel. One by one, they speak to her about the great man who captivates them all, friends and foes alike. Thus, a picture of Goethe gradually emerges from the narrations of others, which act as mirrors, each reflecting a different aspect of his existence. Until, in the middle of this "hall of mirrors," the man himself finally appears, so real that the reader can almost feel his breath.
Thomas Mann began writing Lotte in Weimar in 1933 and completed it in 1939. By then, he was already the famous author of The Magic Mountain, honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature, living in self-imposed exile. Being on a tour abroad in 1933, he did not return to his homeland, where the Nazis had seized power in the meantime, resulting in the regime stripping him of his German citizenship.
The phrase "Germany is me!" attributed to Goethe in the seventh chapter of the book, is a quote from Thomas Mann himself, a comment on the Nazis' prohibition on him returning to his country. "Germany," Thomas Mann had said then, "is where I am!"
“Lotte in Weimar is a masterpiece, perhaps Thomas Mann's most successful work, despite Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and the epic Joseph and His Brothers... Perfect in its proportions, perfect in its language, it seems to surpass all Mann's previous books... The entire output of enslaved literature in Nazi Germany does not reach this unique book from exile...” Stefan Zweig, 1939
“Thomas Mann attempted to show the internal relationship between Goethe's life and the great intellectual currents of his time, which is also our time, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Nationalism, and the critique that can be applied to these currents through the means of art.” From the afterword by Kosmas Psychopaidis
Manufacturer
- Author
- Thomas Mann
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- Lotte in Weimar
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 544
- Release Date
- 12/2020
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601681450
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