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"The first novels, the Romantics reads like a late Victorian novel in the English translation and I assume the German is similar. The language is formal and carefully phrased in the Victorian style. However, I found it kind of stilted. They were very few characters, the hero, his one friend, his parents, his Polish mistress, the woman he marries and her parents. The friend is therefore sort of" — Aug 28, 2026 02:18AM
"The first novels, the Romantics reads like a late Victorian novel in the English translation and I assume the German is similar. The language is formal and carefully phrased in the Victorian style. However, I found it kind of stilted. They were very few characters, the hero, his one friend, his parents, his Polish mistress, the woman he marries and her parents. The friend is therefore sort of" — Aug 28, 2026 02:18AM
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
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