Lotte in Weimar

Thomas Mann, the acclaimed writer of the twentieth century and a Nobel Prize laureate, takes readers into a fascinating world inspired by the life of Johann Goethe.

“Lotte in Weimar” is an exquisite novel in which Mann masterfully combines profound reflections on an artist’s life—often a life of struggling to find one’s place in the real world—with a witty, gripping plot. At the center of the story is a meeting in Weimar between an elderly and famous Goethe and his former beloved. Did this meeting really take place? And what was it like? That remains a mystery. Yet in Mann’s work, artistic truth proves more important than historical fact.