Vision (Thomas Mann)

Vision is a prose sketch by Thomas Mann , which was written in 1893 for the Lübeck school magazine " Der Frühlingssturm ".

content

Not much happens in this text. It is the narrator's gaze that is fixed on the young lady's hand adorned with a ring. The narrator cools his hot blood by talking about damask and a crystal goblet - props that are familiar from photos of Wilhelmine living rooms. What is timeless, however, triggers an emotion in the narrator. It's a pulsation and throbbing close to the vein on the bare forearm including a delicate hand in that room. Yes, lost love for girls is certainly earth-shaking. After all, in the end the narrator can cry over the lost love for a girl, let the tears run free.

annotation

Hermann Kurzke points to the influence of the Viennese symbolists . The Viennese have the "minute analysis of sensations" according to Hans R. Vaget from the French.

Used edition

“Thomas Mann: Vision. Prose sketch. ” Pp. 7–8 in Complete Stories. Volume 1. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2002 (8th edition), ISBN 3-10-348115-2

literature

Hans R. Vaget in: Helmut Koopmann (Ed.): Thomas-Mann-Handbuch. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-82803-0 , pp. 553, 555 f.
Hermann Kurzke : Thomas Mann. Life as a work of art. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-596-14872-3 , p. 61