The violinist

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The Violinist is a novella by Ferdinand von Saar , published in 1887 .

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The storyteller , probably a writer , met the writer and time critic Walberg in a restaurant, where both of them regularly eat lunch. They make friends a little. On a walk together , they watch a dead woman who threw herself into the river is pulled out of the water. Walberg clearly knows her and is visibly moved. He asks his friend into his apartment so as not to be alone. Then he tells.

In the internal narrative , Walberg notices the violinist in a women's band at a carnival party - Ludovica Mensfeld. Months later he watches her standing in front of a pawnshop that has just closed . He selflessly offers her help and lends her a large sum of money. Subsequently he is invited by Ludovica. He becomes acquainted with her two sisters Anna and Mimi as well as a young man named Alexis, for whose gambling debts Ludovica needed the money. Walberg later gets his money back with a certain coolness.

Six months later, Ludovica visits him in his apartment. She asks him to go to Alexis for her. She gave this gambler all her heart and repeatedly bailed him out. But he has turned to her younger sister Mimi and no longer wants to know anything about her. Walberg returns from Alexis unsuccessfully and has to leave the completely desperate Ludovica to her fate. She later marries an impoverished baron . Ludovica takes her own life when he tries to force her into prostitution to pay off his many debts.