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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

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'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas MannA story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by conflict, and the terrible things he witnesses. Written by someone who fought in the Thirty Years War which decimated Europe in the seventeenth century, it combines brutal, documentary realism with fantastical, knockabout humour to depict a universe turned upside down. This pioneering… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-14-198212-0
  • EAN: 9780141982120
  • Produktnummer: 24851726
  • Verlag: Penguin
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'770 KB

Über den Autor


Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621-67) was born during the Thirty Years War and grew up to fight in it. It is impossible to disentangle how much of Simplicius Simplicissimus was based on his own experience and how much was fabricated. J. A. Underwood is a distinguished translator of German and French. He has translated, among others, Freud, Canetti, Kafka, Benjamin, Gombrowicz, Bachelard and Robbe-Grillet.Kevin Cramer is the author of The Thirty Years War and German Memory in the 19th Century. He teaches at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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