Gertrude
A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
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In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic life.
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German literature, Translations into English, Fiction, Composers, People with disabilities, Opera, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, general, Large type books, German fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Composers, fiction, People with disabilities, fictionTimes
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