num_pages: 208
description: With Hesse's characteristic insight and penetration, an exploration of the destructive nature of human love   As a sensitive, disabled young composer, the narrator is drawn to a sensual singer named Gertrude through their mutual love of music. Gradually he becomes engulfed by an enduring and hopeless passion for her but, because of his fear of arousing sympathy instead of passion, he loses her. When Gertrude marries his friend, a famous singer, he is compelled to stand by and watch passively as their obsessive relationship disintegrates into tragedy.
language: English
title: Gertrude
titlecomplete: Gertrude
characters: Konrad Lohe, Hans H., Brigitte Teiser, Heinrich Muoth, Stefan Kranzl, Gertrude Imthor, Miss Schniebel, Mr. Imthor, Kuhn, Marian, Lottie, Teiser, Liddy
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, Music, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Germany, 20th Century
ratings_count: 6648
places: Munich (München)
publisher: Peter Owen Publishers