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The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780241309865)
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x'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 CramerAuthor: Hans Jak Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen
ISBN-10: 0241309867
ISBN-13: 9780241309865
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2018
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By Hans Jak Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen
xHans 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.
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