Eduard von Keyserling (1855-1918) was long forgotten, but today literary criticism is rediscovering him as probably the most important author of literary impressionism in the German-speaking world.

His narrative style shifts from naturalism towards impressionism and the poetics of decadence, and with a modernist approach he finds narrative forms, and in his works he manages, like few others in German literature, to nuancedly portray the psychology of modern man at the crossroads of time.