The network (Bergengruen)
The network is a novella by Werner Bergengruen that appeared in Zurich in 1956.
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The fisherman's wife is ensnared by a strange helmsman and caught like in a net. For this she is convicted by the village judiciary and thrown down the Black Rock. But the husband saves his wife. The falling woman goes into his net, which he has secretly set up between the cliffs. The village judge is at a loss and calls on the margravine as an authority. The noble lady finds reasons for the couple's pardon: The verdict was that the woman should be thrown down the rock and not that she should be killed. In addition, God performed a miracle by dropping the woman into the net and thus set a sign. Moreover, the fisherman should not be punished for acting out of love. However, the margravine has prepared a mild punishment for the fisherman's wife. The unfaithful will henceforth wear the margravine's golden hairnet as a sign that she is now a prisoner of her husband's love for life.
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The title of the novella and its beginning make it possible to guess the further course of events.
See also
literature
- source
- Werner Bergengruen: The network. Novelle (= The Little Books of the Ark. 207, ZDB -ID 251917-3 ). Peter Schifferli Verlags AG "Die Arche", Zurich 1956.
- Secondary literature
- Frank-Lothar Kroll (ed.): Word and poetry as a place of refuge in difficult times. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1816-7 .
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. Biographical and bibliographical concise dictionary based on authors and anonymous works. German authors. A – Z. 4th, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 , p. 50.