Grimmelshausen the Storyteller: A Study of the `Simplician' Novels

by Alan Menhennet

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 abenthuerliche Simplicissimus(1688), out of which arose a kind of cycle of "Simplician" novels. Later generations have more than made up for this neglect, and established him as an accomplished satirist and profound allegorist, who confronted the temporal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131027
• ISBN13: 9781571131027
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"