Lotte in Weimar
Subtitle: the beloved returns
By: Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter ; introduction by Hayden White.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Kestner, Charlotte Buff, 1753-1828 -- Fiction.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Fiction.; Women -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) -- Fiction.; Authors, German -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portrait, a complex study of Goethe and of Lotte, the still-vivacious woman who in her youth was the model for Charlotte in Goethe's widely-read The Sorrows of Young Werther. Lotte's thoughts, as she anticipates meeting Goethe again after forty years, and her conversations with those in Weimar who knew the great man, allow Mann to assess Goethe's genius from many points of view. Hayden White's fresh appraisal of the novel reveals its consonances with our own concerns.