TY - BOOK AU - Hofmannsthal,Hugo von TI - Der Tor und der Tod AV - PT PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - German drama -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Thor_und_der_Tod; Release date is 2010-03-31; Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Der Tor und der Tod" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is a lyric drama in verse written in 1893. The play follows nobleman Claudio as Death arrives to take him from life. Death confronts Claudio with three departed souls—his mother, a former lover, and a childhood friend—revealing that he lived with aesthetic detachment, never forming deep connections. Only in his final hour does Claudio experience true emotional vitality, recognizing the emptiness of his dandy-like existence too late. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31850 ER -