{"product_id":"the-adventurous-simplicissimus-paperback","title":"The Adventurous Simplicissimus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. J. C. Von Grimmelshausen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eA. T. S. Goodrick\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eEric Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimplicissimus\u003c\/i\u003e, which has more than once been called the greatest of all German novels, has a terrible relevance in the America of today, writes Eric Bentley in his preface to this edition. \"For the Thirty Years' War, which is its subject, was not just any war. It was a war which inflicted death not on individuals only but on cities, on populations, and it was a war in which life went on, between battles, in the seventeenth-century equivalent of deep shelters protected from the neighbors by machine guns: a war which, even more than other wars, brought out the worst in human nature. And around it, as today, in supreme irony: the highest of high ideals.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is great literature of war, and very much of it speaks poignantly today. The \u003ci\u003eSimplicissimus\u003c\/i\u003e may well be the most poignant book in all this literature because its war, alas, is our war, our kind of war. . . . At moments, the \u003ci\u003eSimplicissimus\u003c\/i\u003e may be too painful to read, and its relevance too much to bear thinking of, but it is a classic function of literature to make the unbearable bearable, the painful--and not perversely--pleasurable. There is a transcendence here, and in the case of the \u003ci\u003eSimplicissimus\u003c\/i\u003e, not just an aesthetic one. We shall not end the horrors of war by refusing to let the mind dwell on them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 398\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 8.56 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1962\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48343362306297,"sku":"9780803250772","price":46.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QomEG-iPRn9780803250772.webp?v=1777697837","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-adventurous-simplicissimus-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}