Audio guide for reading
Audio guide for reading How to explain the instand success of this debut feature?.
The plot is rather simple: two young lovers spent a late summer weekend and enjoy their infatuation. They go for a walk, to the cinema and on a boat-ride – things that other young couples do as well. The peculiarity is based on the natural dismissal of moral standard of parents and middle-class. It is mentioned nowhere in the narrative if the two are maybe engaged. They practice “Free Love” – and that without any bad consciousness.
The novel was based on real/actual events. In August 1911 Kurt Tucholsky and his girlfriend(?) Else Weil spent a few days in Rheinsberg. Else inspired “Claire” in the narrative.
After the surprisingly huge success of his little book, Tucholsky fabricated 30 copies of a de luxe edition for his friends – bound in genuine hog skin and with hand-coloured pictures. On the Tucholsky printed: