Gradiva

About “Gradiva”

Gradiva: A Pompeian Fantasy is a novel by Wilhelm Jensen, first published in installments from June 1 to July 20, 1902, in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse. The story was inspired by a Roman bas-relief and later influenced Sigmund Freud's 1907 study Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva. Freud's analysis helped bring attention to the novel, and the fantasy-image from the book, based on the Roman sculpture, became a significant theme in Surrealist art. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)