This character compares himself to the flame of a candle and a drunken butterfly to tell another character how he is the figure of eternal sacrifice that burns people into spirit and light.
This character compares himself to the flame of a candle and a drunken butterfly to tell another character how he is the figure of eternal sacrifice that burns people into spirit and light. This 67-year old discourses on the beauty of a hyalite, hyaline quartz to deflect a question from his son about an occupant of the Hotel Elephant. A woman uses this character's theater box and then has an imaginary conversation with him about the nature of sacrifice while riding in a carriage back to her hotel. This character is contrasted both with Dr. Friedrich Reimer, who abandoned a post at a university to become his secretary, and with his son August, who is fated to always follow in his footsteps. This character doesn't actually appear until the antepenultimate chapter, in which he has a conversation with Charlotte Kestner, a woman he'd loved 40 years ago. For 10 points, name this aging writer who is reunited with the inspiration of his youth in Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar.
This character compares himself to the flame of a candle and a drunken butterfly to tell another character how he is the figure of eternal sacrifice that burns people into spirit and light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe