The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Autor Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Traducere de J. a. Underwooden Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2018
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241309865
ISBN-10: 0241309867
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241309867
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621-1676) was born in the Wetterau town of Gelnhausen, an area devastated by the Thirty Years' War. Late in life, Grimmelshausen wrote Simplicius Simplicissimus, which became an immediate and overwhelming success, initiating the German novel tradition. It was widely imitated and existed in many versions and languages. Very little is known of Grimmelhausen's life and it is hard to know how much of his novel is based on his own experiences and how much on tales he had heard of the war.
J.A. Underwood is a distinguished translator of German. For Penguin Classics he has also translated Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street and Other Writings and Sigmund Freud's Interpreting Dreams.
Kevin Cramer is the author of The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century. He is associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
J.A. Underwood is a distinguished translator of German. For Penguin Classics he has also translated Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street and Other Writings and Sigmund Freud's Interpreting Dreams.
Kevin Cramer is the author of The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century. He is associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Recenzii
Simplicissimusnot
only
satirizes
the
world's
folly
but
offers
a
Christian
view
of
the
vanity
of
this
transitory
existence.
For
this
purpose,
Grimmelshausen
sense
Simplicius
off
on
a
series
of
picaresque
adventures.
...
And
he
has
done
so
in
a
lively,
colloquial,
folksy
style
that
is
a
major
and
original
achievement,
and
a
test
for
the
translator.
J.
A.
Underwood
certainly
passes
this
test.
He
has
gone
all
out
for
a
vivid,
slangy,
contemporary
style,
and
his
version
is
tremendous
fun
to
read,
as
well
as
accurate.