In the land of milk and honey

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Cover of the first edition
Title page of the first edition

In the land of milk and honey. A novel among fine people is a novel by Heinrich Mann , which was partly written during a stay in Rome .

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Im Schlaraffenland was first published in 1900 by Albert Langen in Munich . The book is the prelude to a series of novels that deal critically with Wilhelminism (like Professor Unrat and Der Untertan ). The novel describes with caustic clarity the Berlin cultural scene and the decadent crowd of the 1890s. It also forms a counterbalance to Heinrich Mann's rather kitschy first work In a Family . With the naturalistic miners' drama “Revenge”, which is panned out in the novel , Heinrich Mann alluded to Gerhart Hauptmann's dramas .

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anti-Semitism

In the land of milk and honey. A novel among fine people describes the rise and fall of the penniless and little talented provincial literary writer Andreas Zumsee , who, thanks to luck and relationships, has made a steep career in Wilhelmine society, which comes to an equally quick end through his hubris . Thanks to a letter of recommendation from a fatherly friend, Andreas Zumsee succeeds in being introduced to the salon of the banking couple Türkheimer , a place where “money rolls around under the furniture” by Editor-in-Chief Operator . He becomes Adelheid Türkheimer's lover, from whom he (reluctantly) allows himself to be financially supported. With her patronage, he writes a drama "The Misunderstood" in the style of Henrik Ibsen , the apparent success of which leads him to excessive self-overestimation and misunderstanding of his situation. Out of exuberance, he seduces little Matzke , the vulgar-proletarian lover of the banker Türkheimer, who actually appears unattractive, whereupon the Türkheimer couple take revenge by forcing them to marry and pushing Zumsee to a meager editorial post. Heinrich Mann subsequently added a fictional letter from Andreas Zumsee to the editor in front of the novel, which represents a clear retrospective of the character in the novel, but at the same time criticizes the author's "errors" in terms of content. Highly problematic characters consistently have names which, in the eyes of contemporary readers, clearly classify them as Jews. Therefore, the novel is exposed to the charge of anti-Semitism .

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