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Baden Baden, 19.10.1919
Dear Professor,
By the same post I am sending you a manuscript23 which I called a psychoanalytical novel in a fit of whimsy. The book made its obligatory round of the publishers and was in turn sent back to me with polite rejections and thanks. I have now given up hope of finding somebody who might publish it, yet I would like you to have a look at it before it disappears for good. Maybe Ferenczi, too, might be interested, and have a glance at it. I would be happy to reward him for his kind criticism of my pamphlet24 with a few hours' happy reading.
In my provincial isolation I do not hear anything about the happenings in the outside world. My rumour-mongering bookseller maintains that Imago and the Psychoanalytische Zeitschrift have died. Is that true? I had got so used to this pleasure, yet for months now I have been unable to get a copy.
With all best wishes I remain
Yours gratefully Groddeck
‘Der Wanzentöter oder die entschleierte Seele Thomas Weltleins’ (The bug killer or the unveiled soul of Thomas Weltlein). A psychoanalytic novel, published later under the title Der Seelensucher (The Seeker of Souls), Vienna, 1921.
Op. cit. See note 12 above.