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Title: Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter ISBN: 0-520-07007-0 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A charming "sequel" to Werther
Comment: It is not only recommended, but it is incumbent on anyone who wishes to read this book to read "The Sorrows Of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first. Otherwise, this book will make no sense whatsoever.
Mann writes a hilarious tale of "what if?" the real life Charlotte Kestner & Goethe met up in Weimer 50 or so years after the publication of Werther. The result is a true masterpiece of writing. We get to meet Charlotte, as well as Arthur Schopenhaur's rather ditzy (at least in this novel, anyway) sister, Adele along with the almighty Goethe himself. The book centers around an interesting question: which is more real? The true life Charlotte? Or the fictional one of Werther? This is an intriguing question, as Mann furnishes the "real" Kestner (which is also a fictional one) with a "real" personality; something which was rather lacking in Goethe's story.
The book has everything one would want for fans of both Goethe and Mann. It articulates the "pressures" put on people who exist in reality who provide the inspiration for fictional characters in novels. Who, in fact, has it worse? The innocent individual who is inserted into fictional stories? Or the artist who feeds personal experiences into the machinery of his genius with the efficacy of producing great art? Who makes the greater sacrifice in the name of creativity?
This is a truly wonderful book. Although most of Mann's books have a distinctive humor to them, this one is much more lighthearted than any of his others. There is even a wonderful chapter in which we first meet Goethe....a stream-of-consciousness which asks the $60,000 question: what HAPPENS inside a mind as massive as Goethe's? It kind of reminded me of Hermann Broch's "The Death Of Virgil" which asked a similar question regarding the mental acumen of Virgil in a stream-of-consciousness way. In either case, who could ask for anything more?
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Title: Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods ISBN: 0375701168 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man by Thomas Mann ISBN: 0679739041 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Magic Mountain: A Novel by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods ISBN: 0679772871 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Black Swan by Thomas Mann, Willard R. Trask ISBN: 0520070097 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter ISBN: 0520076710 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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