RARE! 1907, Heinrich Mann, Zwischen den Rassen, First Edition

Zwischen den Rassen is a seduction novel by Heinrich Mann, begun in 1905 and published in May 1907. The young Lola Gabriel with the trained alto voice loves the very reserved German Arnold Acton. But the sensual blonde girl falls for the gambler Count Pardi from Florence. Her marriage to him fails and the disillusioned young woman finds her way back to her first love. Heinrich Mann’s mother was the Brazilian Julia da Silva. In addition, a Mr. da Silva appears briefly as a minor character in the novel. The author uses the term race not ideologically, but phenotypically. Lola says of herself that she has “both races” in her, the Germanic and the Latin. So, in a phenotypic sense, she observes traits in herself. She got the temperament from her Latin American mother and the depth from her father.