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has borrowed the crudest passages,...] , and reports from various of Goethe’s
friends. His description of Goethe’s love affair with the waitress Faustina is
according to Ortheil largely inspired by the “Romische Elegien” (Schulke 30)
[Roman Elegies].
Struzyk prefaces her novel with the phrase “Es ist alles frei
gefiinden,/Quellen flieflen am angegebenen Ort. . . ” (8) [everything is freely
invented,/sources flow at the indicated place ...]. In her bibliography however,
she credits secondary research and autobiographical source materials such as
letters. Appended to her novel is a nineteenth-century entry for “Schelling:
Dorothea Caroline Albertine” taken, complete with old-fashioned typescript,
from Franz Wunder:
“Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, EinundreiBigster Band, auf
Veranlassung Seiner M