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Chargement... The Singular Life Story of Heedless Hopalong (1670)par Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. REENACTORS NOTES (16th Century): Warning, this book is set during the Thrity Years War 123 pages: The far less fortunate friend of Simplicius, Heedless Hopalong's life is a tale of woe. Never quite lucky enough to see his fortunes made permanent, Heeless is found by Simplicius in a bar at the end of a long and hard life. His story is a cautionary mirror to the one of Simplicious. "Young man, if you go a'soldiering when you're young, you'll go a'beggin' when your old". ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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'The author', the ageing Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearaway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a village inn. First of all 'the author' describes how he was caught by Courage and her band of gypsies and conned into writing her life-story for her. In the main part of the novel, Tearaway then recounts his adventurous life, which takes him through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and then to Hungary to fight against the Turks, later to Italy and Greece. He ends up as a one-legged fiddler, travelling round Germany, playing, begging, stealing and cheating. The narrative includes tales of trickery, sorcery and magic, some revolving round Tearaway's wife, who discovers a magic bird's nest which makes her invisible and which she uses it for various escapades, including cuckolding Tearaway, until she is caught and killed. Despite the fantastic elements of some episodes, the novel is told in the same down-to-earth, often earthy style of Grimmelshausen's other novels. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)833.5Literature German and related languages German fiction Period of Imitation, 1625–1750Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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