A Dream Play
"The Hour" written in 1894 was the first prose by Lange, but the short symbolic novel was published in 1895 in the first volume of "Poems". It is a story of Artemis and Auora, the two ancient goddesses who descend to Earth to witness human life. In some ways "The Hour" is similar to August Strindberg's 1901 drama "A Dream Play" and "The Woman without a Shadow" written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1919. The novel contains many mystical fragments stylized as religious writings, a psalms, a manifesto, greek tragedy and the ode. It also connects prose with elements of poetry and drama.