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GRADIVA....Ein pompejanisches Phantasiestück A good read! Novel is in GERMAN!!Sein Lebensthema hat Jensen wohl am gekonntesten in der Novelle Gradiva gestaltet. Der Anstoß zu dieser 1903 erschienenen Novelle kam von der Arbeit des Archäologen Friedrich Hauser, der im selben Jahr das von Jensen in der Novelle beschriebene Reliefbruchstück einer schreitenden jungen Frau, der Gradiva, mit weiteren Reliefbruchstücken in Zusammenhang brachte und seine Geschichte erhellte. Jensen entwickelt in seinem typischen (selbst)ironischen Stil ein Szenario, das einen etwas weltfremden Archäologen in den Ruinen von Pompeji auf den vermeintlichen Geist einer beim Vesuv-Ausbruch verstorbenen jungen Römerin griechischer Herkunft stoßen lässt .... The story is about an archaeologist named Norbert Hanold who is obsessed with a woman depicted in a bas-relief that he sees in a museum in Rome. After his return to Germany, he manages to get a plaster-cast of the relief, which he hangs on a wall in his work-room and contemplates daily. He comes to feel that her calm, quiet manner does not belong in bustling, cosmopolitan Rome, but rather in some smaller city, and one day an image comes to him of the girl in the relief walking on the peculiar stepping-stones that cross the streets in Pompeii. Soon afterwards, Hanold dreams that he has been transported back in time to meet the girl whose unusual gait so captivates him. He sees her walking in the streets of Pompeii while the hot ashes of Vesuvius subsume the city in 79 AD. This fantastical dream leads Hanold on a real journey to Rome, Naples, and ultimately Pompeii, where, amazingly, he sees the Gradiva of his bas-relief stepping calmly and buoyantly across the lava stepping-stones. He follows her, loses her, then finds her sitting on the low steps between two pillars. He greets her in Latin, only to be answered, If you wish to speak to me, you must do so in German. When he addresses her as if she were the girl of his dream, however, she looks at him without comprehension, gets up and leaves. Hanold calls out after her, Are you coming here again tomorrow in the noon hour? But she does not turn round, gives no answer, and a few moments later disappears round the corner. Hanold hurries after her, but she is nowhere to be seen. What follows is his quest to determine whether the woman he has seen is real or a delusion.Looking for another good novel? Just click on the name TLC BOOKS at the top of the page, next to the title, or write at the search box …TLC BOOKS …you will be taken to our main page, where you will be able to peruse all the titles…many are Christian and Wholesome titles.
