author
Eduard von Keyserling
1855–1918
Known for luminous, quietly melancholy prose, this Baltic German writer captured the fading world of the old aristocracy with unusual delicacy. His fiction is often linked with literary impressionism, where mood, memory, and atmosphere matter as much as plot.
2 Audiobooks
Illan varjot : Romaani
by Eduard von Keyserling
Ruhtinattaria : romaani
by Eduard von Keyserling
About the author
Born on May 14, 1855, in Courland in what is now Latvia, Eduard von Keyserling came from a Baltic German noble family. He studied in Dorpat, and the landed world he knew firsthand later became the setting for many of his stories and novels.
He is remembered as a fiction writer and dramatist whose work is closely associated with literary impressionism. Again and again, he wrote about the fragile elegance and quiet decline of aristocratic life, using subtle observation and a finely tuned sense of atmosphere rather than loud drama.
Keyserling died on September 28, 1918. Though he was never the most widely known German-language author, he has continued to attract readers for the grace of his style and his poignant portraits of a disappearing social world.