Avenged

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Revenged is a novelistic study by Thomas Mann that appeared in Simplicissimus on August 11, 1899 .

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At the age of 20, the extremely bullish Anselm met Dunja Stegemann, who was ten years older than him . Dunja has German parents and grew up in Moscow. In Germany she worked as a governess until she worked as a freelancer for literary and artistic journals. Anselm describes Dunja as a young, comradely, but ugly woman. Compared to the unfinished Anselm, Dunja exudes serenity and the self-confidence of seasoned intellectuals. Anselm debated art things with Dunja for hours at a profit. The evening conversations also deal with the psychology of love between men and women. During such an exchange of ideas, Dunja sits straight at the table, smoking. It dissected, vivisized with a completely masculine brain . Anselm lounges on the chaise longue and drinks red wine. He would never have thought such analytical qualities in a woman possible. He cannot deny the close spiritual relationship with her. Because the long art talks were conducted openly and honestly in every respect without any politeness, Anselm believes he can tell this remarkable woman anything. One of those evenings Anselm drank too much wine. This is how the stupid guy expresses how intact the relationship between her and him is, despite his aversion to her body.

Dunja doesn't show anything and replies that about a year ago she had a beautiful young lover in Frankfurt am Main. Anselm sits there like a doused poodle. Dunja stays calm and smokes like a lady. It works in Anselm. It seems to him as if the motionless Dunja offers herself. Indomitable animal instincts rumble in Anselm and finally can no longer be suppressed. Since the art talk went into the night, Anselm now returns the libertine and immediately wants a night of love. Dunja gets up and says goodbye with a mocking smile. She would like to leave it with the camaraderie.

reception

  • Vaget briefly discusses the short story, which is about a "cynical relationship to the erotic".

expenditure

  • Thomas Mann: All the stories. S. Fischer Frankfurt 1963. Linen. 763 pages, red spine label with gold writing. Vision, Fallen, The Will to Happiness, Disappointment, Death, Little Herr Friedemann, The Bajazzo, Tobias Mindernickel, The Wardrobe, Revenge , Luischen, The Way to the Cemetery, Gladius Dei, Tristan, The Hungry People , Tonio Kröger, The Child Prodigy , Fortune, With the Prophet, Difficult Hour, Wälsungenblut, Anecdote, The railway accident, How Jappe and Do Escobar fought, Death in Venice, Lord and dog, Disorder and early suffering, Mario and the magician, The exchanged heads, The law , The Deceived, The Boy Enoch (fragment).
  • Thomas Mann: All the stories. Volume 1. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-10-348115-2 , pp. 176-181

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