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«Lenz» is the short novel by German writer Georg Büchner, published by Reclam in paperback (79 pages, in German).
Published posthumously in 1839, the work follows the playwright Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz during his stay in the Steintal valley in 1778, where Pastor Oberlin tries to help him amid a mental crisis. Büchner based his account on the pastor's report and on Goethe's recollections to create a narrative that many consider a starting point of modern European prose.
This Studienausgabe from Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (no. 8210), edited by Hubert Gersch, adds Oberlin's report «Herr L...» and extracts from Goethe's «Dichtung und Wahrheit».
Intended for students of German literature and readers who want to approach the origins of modern European prose.
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though limited by his death at age 23, are generally held in great esteem in Germany. Despite his brief career, his plays profoundly influenced naturalism, expressionism, and later developments in European theater.
