Sämmtliche Werke 6: Arabesken, Prosaschriften, Rom

A wandering mind gathers these pieces like scattered shells on a shore, each written in a different season of the author’s life. The essays confess both pride and embarrassment, revealing how youthful impulses and later reflections mingle in a single, unpolished voice. The writer asks readers to forgive the occasional clumsy turn while rewarding them with moments of unexpected insight.

The collection then turns to the three great sisters of art—sculpture, painting, and music—celebrating them as the world’s true adornments. Vivid images of marble statues, trembling lyres, and vivid colors conjure a mythic Greece where beauty itself is worshipped. In this lyrical reverie, the author explores how each medium captures fleeting emotions—anger, joy, sorrow—and transforms them into a timeless, almost tactile elegance that invites listeners to feel the pulse of creation.