PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Walking freely into the minds of his characters, Neumann takes us through this shift in a series of scenes in which the group’s members attempt to control or steer their careers, their love affairs and other relationships ... In Shelley Frisch’s admirable translation we see Fichte enjoying his evening wine and milk bun; corpulent Goethe looks \'like a Frankfurt wine merchant\' in the eyes of Dorothea Veit.