A review by carmenx9
Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann

4.0

"But see how men - and poets too - think only of themselves!"

Thomas Mann knows how to draw me into a story and craft a pitch perfect ending - taking into account all themes and threads on art, life, and when their ownerships are questioned that he introduces in this fictionalised version of Charlotte Kestner's Weimar trip and possible meeting with Goethe - even if his middle portions are almost always testing. Seven page paragraphs. For the love of all that's good, just no