Hartmut Heyck 
How Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ in the Viennese newspaper ‘Neue Freie Presse’ [EPUB ebook] 

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject German – Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: This paper details how Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen’s ‘Pompeian fantasy’ GRADIVA in the Viennese Newspaper NEUE FREIE PRESSE in June/July 1902. This ‘gothic’ novel, published in book form in 1903, came to the attention of Sigmund Freud who famously analysed it in his ‘Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen’s GRADIVA’ (1907).