5 manuscripts VIENNA 1925-29: Self-written POEMS by Wilhelm Gross, 382 pages!
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With self-written poems and poem drafts by a young man named Wilhelm Gross.
Some poems have been crossed out, i.e. discarded, but almost always in a form that is still readable.
One of the notebooks contains two copies of letters (correspondence from December 1925 with a friend about the poems that the author would like to submit to a professor for assessment).
Wilhelm Gross's letter to his friend states: "Dear Hans! I am increasingly realizing that I lack an inner calling. I just seem to lack the ability to express myself or the necessary intelligence. In any case, the next time should provide information about whether I can expect something or not. I will make a selection of Prof. in 1-2 months. Breyer, and if his assessment is negative, we will probably have to give up the idea of a productive future. Your Wilhelm."
Quotes from the answer (written by the friend in his own hand): "Dear Willi! I can only ask you to continue working, to be as selfless as possible in criticizing your own things and to strengthen your will. You are still very young and will go through many changes. Artistic independence in grasping and processing the material only comes with a certain level of maturity. Only then will it become clear whether the seriousness of your soul finds the means of expression that is superior to so-called everyday verses and dalliances. So work until then and don't despair. - From obtaining a judgment from Prof. A. I advise you against Brayer; because your things don't yet show any more distinctive characteristics. But the time will come. I myself want to support you with advice and action as far as it is in my power. So courage."
The friend also sometimes writes notes in the margins of the poems.
Wilhelm Gross is in one Carla Hellar in love, to which he dedicates several poems; There is also a copy of a letter to her.
Scope: into the. 382 written pages (20 x 16.5 cm). A few pages in shorthand.-- A booklet with a cardboard cover; the others with a flexible cover.
Dated 24. June 1925 to 28. May 1929 (only a few poems from 1927). -- The place name Vienna appears in some dates of letter copies.
Examples:
In my diary (26. September 1925)
You are a mirror of old times,
a glimpse of the new life,
Today a picture of our past,
In the future you will live again.
Laugh Bajazzo! (20. January 1926)
I can grasp the madness with my hands
And throw it in my face,
I do it to desecrate my being
Because I'm not allowed to cry.
And when every muscle feels tender
and every vein spasms to deceive
Then my inner longing heard me
I want the world, I have to lie to it.
When I despise people like that
and look at her cold interior with a smile
how they cheat, how they lie
sip each other's suffering with joy
Then my demon laughs in horrifying torment
and from his grin the deep mark
can always be found at the head.
Laugh Bajazzo!
City Life (March 1926)
From the mouth of the city's houses
devoured,
from the restlessly driving pace
surrounded.
perplexed. -
Into the brilliant howl of the world hyena
shouts the mile-hungry siren
Money horse.
Questioning
my gaze wanders over the churning sea
where it roars, heavy with haze from hasting
and complaining:
'For the bit of worn-out Freud
forever through nerve-racking suffering?'"
Untitled (12. April 1929):
Are the women I love
those fine, wonderfully proud ones
which are removed from view
pass easily.
And they alone are the big ones
body pride{?}
Allen, devoted to Allen
in the easy walking and the bare
Smile joyfully on her face.
Condition: Covers rubbed, binding slightly loose. Pages slightly stained throughout. Please also note the pictures at the end of the item description!
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