Imago (novel)

{{short description|1906 novel by Carl Spitteler}}

{{For|the 1989 novel by Octavia E. Butler|Lilith's Brood#Imago (1989)}}

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| author = Carl Spitteler

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| country = Switzerland

| language = German

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| genre = Fiction

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| publisher = E. Diederichs

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| published = 1906

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| pages = 229

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Imago is a 1906 autobiographical novel by Carl Spitteler. Spitteler's only novel, it tells of how a young writer returns to a small town where, four years earlier, he had met a woman who became his muse, only to learn that, in his absence, she has married someone else.