The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
The first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflictFirst published in 1668, Simplicissimus tells the picaresque, brilliantly described adventures of a boy swept up in the Thirty Years War and the terrible things that he experiences. Some of it is realistic, some fantastical but the overall effect is an unmatched picture of Europe torn apart by an endless, sadistic, futile war from which nobody can escape. The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus was rediscovered in twentieth-century Germany where the book's grim message as a story of war in all of its horro…
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Weitere Autoren: Underwood, J.A. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-241-30986-5
- EAN: 9780241309865
- Produktnummer: 24030597
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.3 cm 339 g
- Gewicht: 339
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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