The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus - Softcover

Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241309867 ISBN 13: 9780241309865

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2018

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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 Mann

A 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 work of fiction is considered to be the first great German novel.

Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Kevin Cramer

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241309867
• ISBN 13: 9780241309865
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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