Stefan Heym - The Lenz Papers

It is the month of May, 1849. The fortress city of Rastatt in Baden, rocks with the turmoil of uprising soon to erupt. Into the noise and confusion of the 'Turkenlouis' Inn enter the people who will act out the story. Andreas Lenz, poet and soldier. Josepha, whose beauty is challenge and allurement to civilians and military; Lenore, daughter of the town's banker, exquisite, intellectual, who would turn camp follower gladly to win the man she loves; Christoffel, peasant become revolutionary, on his way to Cologne to meet young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the editors of a struggling Left-wing journal.