Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Birth date: January 01, 1622
Died: August 17, 1676
I'm marking this as read for the simple reason that I doubt I'll ever finish this book - and yet I think that having read three out of six parts of this qualifies as "read". (Seriously, try getting even that far ...)It's not that this is a bad book, honestly - it's very funny and entertaining at tim...
Where to begin?... In this book, we follow Simplicissimus, a rather simple man, as he travels throughout various parts of Europe (and other parts of the world), though not always by his own choice. Ongoing wars in Germany affect him in both good and bad ways throughout the book, as he alternates ...
In this 17th century picaresque novel Von Grimmelshausen presents the horrors of war through the eyes of a rural simpleton, who witnesses all the cruelties and evils that humans can inflict on one another without understanding them. I don't remember whose translation I read, but it was certainly pre...
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