Grimmelshausen the Storyteller: A Study of the `Simplician' Novels
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Johann Jakob von Grimmelshausen (1622-76) wished to be taken seriously as a writer, which by and large, in his own day, he was not. He was in fact the author of the first great German novel, Der abenthuerliche Simplicissimus(1688), out of which arose a kind of cycle of "Simplician" novels. Later generations have more than made up for this neglect, and established him as an accomplished satirist and profound allegorist, who confronted the temporal...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1571131027
ISBN13:9781571131027
Release Date:August 1997
Publisher:Camden House (NY)
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.11 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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