Simplicissimus

by Johann Grimmelshausen, Mike Mitchell (Translator)

Overview

It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907650130
Publisher:	Dedalus Press, The
Publication date:	02/10/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	433
Sales rank:	557,923
File size:	700 KB

About the Author

Grimmelshausen (1621-1676) had a very eventful and picaresque life. He spent fourteen years in the Thirty Years War, finally turning to fiction.

Mike Mitchell is one of the most gifted translators of his generation, winner and shortlisted twice for The Schlegel-Tieck German Translation Prize and shortlisted twice for The Weidenfeld Translation Prize.