Author Description

The romance between Georges s favorite disciple, Friedrich Gundolf, and the beautiful emancipated Jewish woman Elisabeth Salomon, was a scandal in George s circle of friends and acquaintances. Their correspondence provides an inside view of their relationship, which played out in Heidelberg, Vienna, and Rome against the backdrop of the First World War, the Spartacist uprising, hyperinflation, Viennese psychoanalysis, and Italian fascism."