Time to Rob the Dead
Jeremy Adler: Simplicius Simplicissimus, 16 March 2017
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
by Johann JakobChristoffel vonGrimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell.
Dedalus, 433 pp., £13.99, April 2017,978 1 903517 42 0 Show More
by Johann JakobChristoffel vonGrimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell.
Dedalus, 433 pp., £13.99, April 2017,
“... Hans Grimmelshausen’s Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, first published in 1668, is one of the great picaresque novels. Like Cervantes and Hašek, Grimmelshausen invented a naive, feckless hero with a guileless yet lovable persona whose innocent wisdom shows up the folly of the world around him ... ”
