Audio guide for reading
Audio guide for reading In 1931 Tucholsky published the novel „Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story“. The bittersweet love story is one of Tucholsky’s most known texts and ties in with the successful Rheinsberg-narrative, less light-hearted but more sophisticated “Castle Gripsholm” recounts the vacation of a loving Berlin couple in Sweden.
Even more than in his first novel “Rheinsberg” Tucholsky embellished this tale with – for those days – bold love life and even hinted at an erotic adventure a trois.
Even though the first-person narrator is named “Kurtchen” there are no autobiographical traces in “Castle Gripsholm” as contrary to “Rheinsberg”. Tucholsky said:
“During the long winter month, while I occupied myself with “Gripsholm”, nothing gave me as much trouble as trying to create this atmosphere of real events.”
The novel became a great success. To the critique, that the narrative was to easygoing and lacking depth, Tucholsky answered: