Add

Activity

Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

Create Account

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.

This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

#DynamicDs

19 users recently

#read2025

12 users recently

#serieslove2025

20 users recently

#audiobook

6 users recently

#5joysfriday

36 users recently

#BookSpinBingo

19 users recently

Trending Books

Untitled

46 users recently

Nancy Drew 18: Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion

Carolyn Keene

11 users recently

Eleanor and Park

Rainbow Rowell

5 users recently

Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

6 users recently

Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel

Suzanne Collins

17 users recently

Gertrude: A Novel | Hermann Hesse

3 posts | 7 read | 1 reading | 2 to read

With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic life.

sdbruening

Gertrude: A Novel | Hermann Hesse

pick

I really enjoyed this book. The writing felt poetic throughout but still personal and engaging. It was a melancholy mood, and I loved that the main character was a composer and most of the characters were musicians so there was a lot about his connection to music. It‘s billed as “a soul-searching novel of creativity and romantic love.” Not so much on the romantic love but love plays a big part. Tragic ending for one of the characters.

3 likes