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The Dead Lake, and Other Tales

by Paul Heyse

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A storm sweeps across a mountain lake as a weary traveller reaches an inn whose trade has dwindled since a new road diverted passing traffic. The household greets him with a mixture of suspicion and practical concern. He declines supper, asks for water, and makes an unusual request to fish by torchlight. Paul Heyse builds the opening tale through weather, small gestures and the uneasy exchanges of people sharing a remote shelter.

Mary Wilson's English translation brings together German short fiction concerned with private feeling and difficult personal attachments. A later passage takes the form of dated reflections on Morrik's fever, a conversation with his doctor and the decision to care for him. The effort to offer comfort is complicated by anxiety about how such concern will look to others.

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Paul Heyse built a wide-ranging German literary career as a novelist, poet, translator, and dramatist, earning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mary of Magdala is the English title of his five-act historical drama Maria von Magdala, a work that places its central figure amid the spiritual and civic tensions of the ancient setting.

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