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100 1 _aKaboth, Hans,
_d1866-1928
245 1 4 _aDie Kauzburg
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-08
508 _aAlpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Die Kauzburg : Roman aus dem Tagebuch eines Freundes" by Hans Kaboth is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on a forester who takes up residence in an ancient order-castle turned Forsthaus and records his experiences in a lyrical, introspective diary. The story blends nature-romance, superstition, and a resurfacing pagan past with the narrator’s unsettling fascination for a red‑haired young woman named Marianne, while a strict housekeeper and local clergy frame the Christian order he is beginning to disrupt. The opening of the novel follows the forester’s arrival in a small river town and his move into the looming stone “Kauzburg,” whose nocturnal beauty and rumored hauntings unsettle and enchant him. He hires Marianne, a striking “child of the street,” and is quickly captivated; a fishing outing and moonlit walk intensify the charged, ambiguous bond between them. During a violent storm he searches for her, only to discover in the cellar a lightning‑revealed underpass and a carved owl over a kneeling figure, hinting at a buried pagan cult; in the darkness she embraces and bites him, then reappears demurely as if nothing happened. A solemn Catholic procession the next day casts Marianne as a Madonna‑like bearer of a wax child, sharpening the novel’s tension between pagan and Christian images. Alone, the narrator explores the tunnel, emerging into a hidden, untouched valley strewn with marked stones like an old altar site, where a soft, human sigh suggests new mysteries as the opening ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDresden: Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstätten, 1925
653 _aGerman fiction -- 20th century
700 1 _aVesper-Waentig, Käte,
_d1879-1960
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76240
999 _c116965
_d116965