Lenz (Livre en allemand)

by Georg Büchner

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61 ratings, 3.89 average rating, 6 reviews (more data...)

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December 1st 1998 by Naxos (first published 1835)

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393351407X (isbn13: 9783933514073)

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At his death at the age of 24 in 1837, Georg Buchner also left behind Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck, and Danton's Death - bold, psychologically and politic…more

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Apr 29, 2008

Debra rated it:

(review of isbn 0974968021)

Read in January, 2007

I have re-read Lenz nearly every year since it was first introduced to me by a German woman I used to clean for. She was born with a dislocated hip and I took care of her house for her and her young child when she was a visiting professor at the university I attended. She gave me such a strong love for this book, for all of Buchner who died when he was in early twenties after producing some of the most compelling works of fiction and theatre. Lenz is based on a true story and Buchner describe...more

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Apr 22, 2009

yellow tree rated it:

(review of isbn 342302626X)

bookshelves: prose

Read in August, 2005

recommends it for: anyone interested into the height and the abyss of the human soul

"lenz" is one of my favorites of büchner and one of my favorites of all time, for it touched me deeply. of course, it's not a novel, a fragment in best case; it's short, the dialogues are disrupted; the narrow plot might make some people think it's "boring", and others might get bored by just any book they were forced to read in school.

but where else would you find such wonderful descriptions of landscapes, both of a beauteous nature, and such an intense depictio...more

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Feb 01, 2010

Ed Brown rated it:

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Read in February, 2010

In 1777 Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz suffered an attack of insanity and the following year was sent to stay at vicarage in Vosges Mountains of Alsace above Strasbourg, where he stayed for a time. Buchner, using the diaries of the minister who cared for Lenz, wrote this long story in 1836. It provides an interesting glimpse of how some people viewed and treated the mad before medical diagnoses were established. The mix of kindness and exasperation displayed by the minister reminded me of how lovi...more

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Apr 08, 2008

Anne rated it:

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Read in May, 2008

recommended to Anne by: NY Times Review
recommends it for: Yuval, Ben, Melissa, Jolivette, Lynn

One of the few books by the brilliant writer whose life was all too short, Georg Büchner's LENZ was one of the early nineteenth century examples of docufiction. The novella, compressed into three weeks of the life of the schizophrenic poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1729), may be the first 'speculative biography' that captures this mode of insanity from the perspective of the third person. The version I read was the critically acclaimed translation by Richard Sieburth, a dual-language bo...more

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Feb 27, 2010

Mark rated it:

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Best translation of the one of the 19th century's most extraordinary books.

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