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'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

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

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Paperback / softback by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , J. A. Underwood

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/03/2018
    ISBN13: 9780241309865, 978-0241309865
    ISBN10: 0241309867

    Number of Pages: 496

    Fiction , Classics

    Description

    '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

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