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Heinrich Zschokke (1771–1848)

Auteur de Le village des Alchimistes

44+ oeuvres 106 utilisateurs 3 critiques

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Œuvres de Heinrich Zschokke

Le village des Alchimistes (1817) 16 exemplaires
The Bravo of Venice; a romance (2009) 8 exemplaires
The Broken Cup (2010) 8 exemplaires
Tales 5 exemplaires
Adventures of a New-Year's Eve (1984) 4 exemplaires
Der tote Gast (2011) 4 exemplaires
Der Sizilianer... (2012) 2 exemplaires
Histoire de la Suisse (2015) 2 exemplaires
Eine Selbstschau (1977) 1 exemplaire
Zerbrochene Krug, Der 1 exemplaire
Hours of devotion 1 exemplaire
Der tote Gast 1 exemplaire
Die Walpurgisnacht 1 exemplaire
Jonathan Frock 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributeur — 158 exemplaires
Ghosts and Robbers: An Anthology of German Gothic Fiction (2021) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

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A moral tale of a Swiss soldier who returns from war to find his village sunk in poverty. Written in 1817, see if any of this sounds familiar.
A small number of people have most of the money and assets. These same people also control most of the government. The state finances are a mess due to incompetence and corruption. The education system is underfunded. Credit is hard to come by and people are heavily in debt due to short-term loans with exorbitant interest rates.
This tale is somewhat too religious for my taste, its also quite twee and utopian by the end, or possibly dystopian, as they come up with laws about what clothes people can wear etc. Its also a little bit too specific at times as many utopian novels can be, as the author's show you their perfect plan of how the world could be fixed and explain it in detail.
I also thought it had an over objection to alcohol until i realized the author didn't even consider drinking at home to actually be drinking, his objections being purely against pubs.
Quite interesting and generally fun read, almost sadly relevant today, at least in the broad strokes.
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wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
Found this in a used bookstore in Ohio--a wonderful collection of rarely-seen english translations of Romantic-era novellas. The Zschokke novella is absolutely wonderful and made me want to learn German just so I could read more of him, since so little is available in English.
 
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tsinandali | Oct 29, 2005 |
A German playwright, historian and writer of tales, he weaves a spell with these stories
 
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GlenRalph | Aug 7, 2009 |

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