Lenz

Lenz wanders through the mountains. Snow lies over the peaks, in the valleys gray rock alternates with green meadows, and damp fir trees hang low over the path. The air is wet, mist rises, and it settles heavily over the landscape.

Georg Büchner wrote this novella, whose material goes back to writings by Oberlin, Stöber, and Goethe. The text shows a man who follows the path without his goal ever becoming quite tangible, and whose inner restlessness is reflected in the landscape.

This cloth-bound edition offers, alongside the text, an afterword by Joachim Bark, annotations, and a chronology. As the third volume of the series “Erlesenes Lesen,” it leads back to a text whose mist lingers long after reading.