Johann Grimmelshausen: 2 books
by Johann Grimmelshausen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
'The author', the aging Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a village inn. First of all 'the author' describes how he was caught by Courage and her band of gypsies and conned into writing her life-story for her. In the main part of the novel,...
by Johann Grimmelshausen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Mike Mitchell�s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. �It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor,...