Simplicius Simplicissimus: Annotated Edition with an introduction by Helmut Weissenborn - Softcover

Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847498787 ISBN 13: 9781847498786

Verlag: Alma Classics, 2023

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Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language – charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, offering an invaluable eyewitness account of the Thirty Years’ War and showing how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutality

A work of great poetical beauty and satirical strength, and a lasting historical document of timeless value, Simplicius Simplicissimus is one of the greatest picaresque novels in the Western canon.

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After serving as a soldier in the Thirty Years War, H.J.C. Grimmelshausen (1621–76), devoted himself to literature, penning various satires and gallant novels, although he is chiefly remembered for his picaresque masterpiece, Simplicius Simplicissimus.

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Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language – charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, offering an invaluable eyewitness account of the Thirty Years War and showing how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutality.

A work of great poetic beauty and satirical strength, and a historical document of timeless value, Simplicius Simplicissimus is one of the greatest picaresque novels in the Western canon.

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• Verlag: Alma Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847498787
• ISBN 13: 9781847498786
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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