His love experience
His love experience is a story by Eduard von Keyserling , which appeared in the new Rundschau in 1906 and in book form in 1909 by S. Fischer, Berlin.
action
The first-person narrator, the budding writer Magnus von Brühlen, an idler from a noble, materially carefree sphere, keeps a diary for a summer , with the firm intention of writing down "a love experience" in order to reflect on it and to a certain extent bring it to life through literature to generate. He meets the obviously unhappy married lady Claudia von Daahlen. He remains in the dark for too long about his feelings for her, maneuvers and finally forgives the near happiness. He is incapable of action, experiences the highest in nervous eroticism and is stunned from a distant togetherness in a red twilight, from a caress without touch. One day he learns that Claudia actually broke her marriage with the Baron von Daahlen and suddenly ran away, but not with him, but with her apparently far more enterprising second admirer, a Baron Spall. The shop girl with whom he had previously met also takes an ophthalmologist as a partner.
reception
According to Tilman Krause , the novella reveals "a for many readers a new kind of Keyserling, a writer who intensifies the irony into a satirical one , who does not even appear as someone who has fallen out of time, but as an author who is downright trend-conscious, who is responsible for the debates , knows aesthetic preferences and literary fashions of his time very precisely and glosses them very viruously. ”With the title His love experience “ this novella is unusually laconic , in any case not poetic and atmospheric ”. Krause sums up:
- The ophthalmologist, a man who understands something about seeing, triumphs over the "life artist" who, as von Daahlen Brühlen had attested, "lives a work of art" and whose pompously staged "love experience" was only blind imagination - more subtle, An author could hardly make fun of his protagonist, the soul esthete and "writer" typical of the epoch, more cruelly. If anywhere, then in this novella we have the "uncomfortable overall habit" of Eduard von Keyserling, in which Thomas Mann rightly saw his modernity.
The critic of the world wrote: this novella [is] unusually laconic, in any case not at all poetic and atmospheric, headed. [...] Your hero is in turn an idler from a noble, materially carefree sphere. But this young Herr von Brühlen is also an intellectual, a dandy and decadent imbued with the will to live as a work of art , a would-be writer who also reads Livy and translates Plato . In his striving way he is even an intellectual aristocrat who, like so many talented young people from the generation that followed Keyserling, sees Nietzsche as his intellectual and aesthetic teacher. [...]
Initial release
Keyserling's story was first published in 1906 in the Neue Rundschau magazine (XVIIth year of Freie Bühne, first and second volume) by S. Fischer Verlag Berlin.
expenditure
- Eduard von Keyserling: Colorful hearts. Two novels . 1909
- E (duard) v. Keyserling: Collected Stories. Volume I (of 4). Berlin, S. Fischer, 1922
- Eduard von Keyserling: His love experience: story . Frankfurt / Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3596144701 / 3-596-14470-1
- Eduard von Keyserling: In the quiet corner . Manesse Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783717520986
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffen Brondke: Journal and book prints of the literary texts Keyserling . In: Christoph Juergensen, Michael Scheffel (Ed.): Eduard von Keyserling and the classical modern . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-476-04891-2 , p. 287–290 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-476-04892-9_19 ( springer.com [accessed April 3, 2020]).
- ↑ a b nobility in decline in the world
- ↑ Hedwig Schwarz: The female figures in the works of Eduard von Keyserling . Diss. Printer Leeman, 1929
- ↑ a b Tilman Krause: Epilogue to the edition: Eduard von Keyserling: In the quiet angle . Manesse Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783717520986