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'Visit to Godenholm' is a 1952 novella by the German writer Ernst Jnger. It tells the story of a group of people who are invited to the island Godenholm in Scandinavia, where they take part in a mind-altering sance with strong surreal imagery.

The book was published in English in 2015, translated by Annabel Moynihan.

Reception



'Visit to Godenholm' did not receive much attention when it was first published and was for a long time one of Jnger's less read works. In the 1990s it caught the interest of Jnger researchers as a veiled description of one of Jnger's early LSD trips together with Albert Hofmann. In the introduction, Elliot Neaman situates the book in a tradition of linking drug experiences with literary expression, with prominent examples from Romanticism and in the works of Charles Baudelaire.

Legacy



In the 1970 essay collection 'Annherungen', a book focused entirely on drugs, Jnger has a chapter titled "Rckblick auf Godenholm", which means "Looking back at Godenholm". The French composer Andr Almur made the 1971 opera 'Visite Godenholm', which is based on Jnger's novel.

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