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Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
Translated by Ronald Taylor
ISBN: 9781847494511
120 pages
RRP: £9.99 £7.99
Eichendorff’s prose masterpiece – a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his father, and who eventually finds love with the girl of his dreams – is one of the best-known classics of German literature.
Deeply imbued with the style and sentiment of German Romanticism, and philosophical and poetic in its approach to nature and existence, Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing is at once an exhilarating romp and a lively portrayal of nineteenth-century ideals.
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Eichendorff breathes the purity of the fairy tale and the folk song … a blithe and happy symbol, touching in his modesty, of a true humanity, a cultured, Romantic humanity
Thomas Mann
Joseph von Eichendorff
Despite leading a life of ordinary officialdom, Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) was one of the most important German Romantic poets, also famous for his prose tales.