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Allegorist
Author_Alan Menhennet
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Coherent Whole
Curiousness
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German Novel
Grimmelshausen
Humor
Individual Vitality
Religious and Moral Concerns
Satirist
Seventeenth Century
Simplician Novels
Spontaneous Response
Product details
- ISBN 9781571131027
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Critical study of Grimmelshausen's `Simplician' novels.
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 abentheuerliche Simplicissimus (1688), out of which arose a kind of cycle of `Simplician' novels. Later generations have made up for this neglect, and established him as an accomplished satirist and profound allegorist, who confronted the temporal and eternal issues of the seventeenth century. This study sets out to show, principally through detailed textual analysis, that Grimmelshausen's `Simplician style' allows of the co-existence of general religious and moral concerns with a spontaneous response to the individual vitality, curiousness, and above all, humour of life, which is the motive force of true storytelling. In addition, while the constituent novels of the `Simplician Cycle' should be and are considered as separate entities, the author's claim that they should also be seen as a coherent whole cannot be brushed aside, and this becomes a progressively more important theme.
