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Truth so difficult: George Eliot and Georg Buchner, a shared time.
From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20010101
Author:Stern, Sheila
It is suggested that George Eliot, in Adame Bede, may have recognized her own views in Georg Buchner's train of argument in Lenz.
The article suggests reasons for believing George Eliot had read Georg Buchner's Lenz (1850) using some of it for Chapter 7 of Adam Bede, advocating truthfulness, or realism, not idealism. Eliot's contacts with Justus von Liebig, while writing this chapter, acquainted her with contemporary German writing. Liebig knew Buchner as his student at Giessen, and was interested in 'everything modern'. He was probably sympathetically aware of Buchner's reputation (political ...
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