The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

Author: Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 496

Release Date: 09-10-2018

Part Number: 30951701

Details: '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 Cramer

EAN: 9780241309865

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English, German