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...written with a calm, thoughtful air, describing in great detail the mental processes and the doings of some of the unloveliest people ever seen outside the caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with...
...Captive. To the credit of the censors be it said, they have suffered to pass a frank sex drama based on one of the social milieu's unloveliest tragedies. It is a tense, well-constructed play, dealing with the plight of an Urning among men. The girl struggles against a homosexual compulsion with all the vigor of human will, only to succumb inevitably to her own nature, consumed entirely by Lesbian fires. Men, uncomprehending, fail to help her to escape from herself. She must return to her own. Perhaps the play's weakness lies in just the same...
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