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Martin Salander and A Village Romeo and Juliet

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Martin Salander, one of Gottfried Keller's most famous novels, traces the progress of an impoverished idealist towards becoming a self-sufficient, deeply humane individual, offering at the same time a reflection on the social and political changes of the time and a compassionate picture of a family which, for the author, is a mirror of the Free Switzerland he had hoped to help build. A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired by the story of two real-life sweethearts and set in rural Switzerland, it evokes the overwhelming beauty of young love and nature, but is ultimately pessimistic about the possibility of such beauty surviving in the real world. Keller's timeless novellas have now rightfully entered the canon of world literature and are widely considered as one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism.

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Juni 2025, ca. 288 Seiten, Englisch
Bloomsbury
978-1-84749-516-7

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