Author: Gustav Freytag

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Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781330569733

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Excerpt from Ingo: The First Novel of a Series Entitled Our Forefathers Germany fiction is very generally underrated abroad, even by many in Germany itself. There are plausible reasons for this. It is too young. True, there had been early beginnings in German prose. We find some of them as far back as the twelfth century, during the heyday of the Minnesingers. Epic literature, ever the cradle of prose romance, had flourished throughout the Middle Ages wherever the Teuton tongue, in its many and greatly varying dialects, was spoken, from the Adriatic to the Eider and Scheldt. Gottfried of Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach had dug deep in the treasures of legendary lore. The lowlands of the North and West had offered their inimitable "Reynard the Fox." Strolling story-tellers changed into popular coin the fairy tales of old at hearth and fair. But the pitiful decline of the old empire, the wasting away of its internal forces in petty yet devastating strife, and, lastly, the century of cruel religious wars that was ushered in by Luther's Reformation and only ended in 1648 - all this led to the drying up of the Pierian springs. The loss of political power, of culture, of wealth, brought with it the inability to "tell a pleasant tale." Where no material existed there could be no output. What we moderns understood by prose romance grew, therefore, later in Germany than elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Ingo written by Gustav Freytag and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ingo: The First Novel of a Series Entitled Our Forefathers Germany fiction is very generally underrated abroad, even by many in Germany itself. There are plausible reasons for this. It is too young. True, there had been early beginnings in German prose. We find some of them as far back as the twelfth century, during the heyday of the Minnesingers. Epic literature, ever the cradle of prose romance, had flourished throughout the Middle Ages wherever the Teuton tongue, in its many and greatly varying dialects, was spoken, from the Adriatic to the Eider and Scheldt. Gottfried of Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach had dug deep in the treasures of legendary lore. The lowlands of the North and West had offered their inimitable "Reynard the Fox." Strolling story-tellers changed into popular coin the fairy tales of old at hearth and fair. But the pitiful decline of the old empire, the wasting away of its internal forces in petty yet devastating strife, and, lastly, the century of cruel religious wars that was ushered in by Luther's Reformation and only ended in 1648 - all this led to the drying up of the Pierian springs. The loss of political power, of culture, of wealth, brought with it the inability to "tell a pleasant tale." Where no material existed there could be no output. What we moderns understood by prose romance grew, therefore, later in Germany than elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.