Johannes Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Trutz Simplex / Courasche [Spite Simplex / The Life of Courage]

Gerhart Hoffmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1670

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Burlesque
Novel
Picaresque

Resources

The short novel Trutz Simplex: oder Ausführliche und wunderseltzame Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörzerin Courasche [Spite Simplex or [...] The Runagate Courage, 1670] forms part of Grimmelshausen’s “Simplician” cycle of novels that also includes Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus [The Adventurous Simplicissimus, 1669] and Der seltzame Springinsfeld [The Strange Hopalong, 1670]. Its publication under the author’s anagram Philarchus Grossus von Trommenheim auf Griffsberg constitutes a turning point in German Baroque literature (see entry). Up to the 1660s most novels published i…

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Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Trutz Simplex / Courasche". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 May 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14754, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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