Description
At twenty, Heinrich von Ofterdingen lives quietly in his village, yet his inner life is restless—haunted by dreams of death and rebirth, and drawn toward a mysterious longing that seems to promise transformation. As he moves from expectation into fulfillment, the novel unfolds through encounters, tales, and symbolic visions that trace how imagination, art, and myth can reshape a person’s understanding of the world. Themes of Romantic “new mythology,” spiritual awakening, and the pursuit of meaning through longing and poetic insight run throughout, linking Heinrich’s personal journey to larger questions about fate, creativity, and transcendence. Written in Novalis’s distinctive lyrical, dreamlike style, this posthumous novel invites readers to experience literature itself as a kind of initiation—where wonder becomes knowledge and the self is remade by story.
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paperback
Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH
Published Jan 1, 1900
256 pages
ISBN: 9783150089392
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First Published
1900
Language
deu
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