Die Liebe: Novelle is a German-language prose work by Hans Kaltneker, an Austrian Expressionist writer who died in 1919 at the age of twenty-four. Kaltneker was associated with the early Expressionist movement in Vienna and produced plays and prose notable for their intense emotional register and engagement with themes of suffering, love, and transcendence.
As a lesser-known title, specific plot details of this particular novella are difficult to verify, but it reflects the Expressionist concern with raw interior experience over conventional narrative. Download this free public-domain EPUB to explore an overlooked voice of early twentieth-century German-language literature.