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Rauch und Schall
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Smoke and Sound

Published by Diogenes as Rauch und Schall
Original Title: Rauch und Schall

Goethe returns from Switzerland to find himself back home in Weimar, suffering from writer’s block. It doesn’t matter how quiet his young son August is, or how lovingly his wife Christiane looks after him. Ultimately, it’s his brother-in-law, Christian August Vulpius – also a writer, much despised by Goethe as a hack – who proves an unlikely source of aid. Aid that Goethe does not want yet desperately needs.


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»It is deliberately not as profound as the approaches taken by Thomas Mann (Lotte in Weimar) or Martin Walker (A Loving Man), but is much funnier.«

Martin Ebel / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich

»Goethe research should most definitely be spurred on by Lewinsky. It obviously seems to have overlooked one or two things.«

Rainer Moritz / NZZ, Zurich

»In the novel Smoke and Sound Charles Lewinsky not only undertakes a cheerful, quotation-rich toppling of monuments but also acquaints us with the demands and abysses of the creative individual.«

Michael Köhler / Deutschlandfunk, Cologne

»This is a marvellous Goethe parody, told in a tongue-in-cheek manner and ironic tone, and truly amusing.«

Elke Heidenreich / Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Cologne

»Lewinsky realized the Weimar classic period in charming language and with conquering metaphors, as well as with a finely tuned balance between truth and telling.«

Hartmut Buchholz / General-Anzeiger, Bonn

»It is deliberately not as profound as the approaches taken by Thomas Mann (Lotte in Weimar) or Martin Walker (A Loving Man), but is much funnier.«

Martin Ebel / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich

»Goethe research should most definitely be spurred on by Lewinsky. It obviously seems to have overlooked one or two things.«

Rainer Moritz / NZZ, Zurich

»In the novel Smoke and Sound Charles Lewinsky not only undertakes a cheerful, quotation-rich toppling of monuments but also acquaints us with the demands and abysses of the creative individual.«

Michael Köhler / Deutschlandfunk, Cologne

»This is a marvellous Goethe parody, told in a tongue-in-cheek manner and ironic tone, and truly amusing.«

Elke Heidenreich / Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Cologne

»Lewinsky realized the Weimar classic period in charming language and with conquering metaphors, as well as with a finely tuned balance between truth and telling.«

Hartmut Buchholz / General-Anzeiger, Bonn
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