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The Adventurous Simplicissimus

by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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A picaresque story set against the Thirty Years' War, this German novel follows Simplicius, a peasant boy torn from his family by marauding soldiers and raised in the woods by a hermit. When the old man dies, the boy stumbles through a ruined Germany, serving in turn as a fool, a soldier, a thief, and finally a wanderer who turns his back on the world. Grimmelshausen drew on his own years in the fighting to render its cruelty and absurdity with rare honesty, and the result stands as one of the earliest great works of German prose fiction. Its mix of comedy, brutality, and moral reckoning has kept it alive for centuries.

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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1621-1676) was a German writer who served as a soldier and later worked as a magistrate. Drawing on his firsthand experience of the Thirty Years' War, he created the Simplicius cycle, works that shaped the German novel for generations.

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First published
1668
Reading time
About 12 hours
Pages
425
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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