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Author | Carl Spitteler |
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Country | Switzerland |
Language | German |
Genre | Fiction |
Published | 1906 |
Publisher | E. Diederichs |
Pages | 229 |
Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse... only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.
The book was cited by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Hanns Sachs as a contributory factor in the early development of psychoanalysis. [1] Charles Baudouin proposed that Spitteler's prose works are intended as "commentaries on his major poems", and observed that Imago is "puzzling" unless read from this viewpoint. [2]
This article needs a
plot summary. (June 2023) |
Author | Carl Spitteler |
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Country | Switzerland |
Language | German |
Genre | Fiction |
Published | 1906 |
Publisher | E. Diederichs |
Pages | 229 |
Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse... only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.
The book was cited by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Hanns Sachs as a contributory factor in the early development of psychoanalysis. [1] Charles Baudouin proposed that Spitteler's prose works are intended as "commentaries on his major poems", and observed that Imago is "puzzling" unless read from this viewpoint. [2]