Innocens

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Innocens , a framework novella by Ferdinand von Saar , was first published in 1865 under the title Innozenz. A picture of life 1866

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A young lieutenant is sent to a lonely fortress, Wyschehrad near Prague, as a watch commander over the weekend . Captured by the idyllic atmosphere in the fort, which is only inhabited by a few people, he particularly notices the priest whose sermon he hears on Sunday. During a later guard duty on the Wyschehrad, he met Father Innocens and from then on visited him regularly. Then the war breaks out in Italy , the troops have to leave Prague. When they last met, Innocens recounts a momentous episode in his life.

Even in his youth, Innocens liked to be alone. As a priest in the monastery, he distances himself from his confreres and is happy when the abbot sends him to Vyshehrad as a priest. Here he has a violent tendency towards the daughter of the kit attendant, whom he sees from his window and in the church. When the equipment attendant's wife falls ill, Ludmilla calls in Innocens. During the night watch by the sick person's bed, the priest lets himself be carried away to caress the sleeping girl. In the following days he is completely deprived of his inner balance. When he receives flowers from Ludmilla while visiting the sick, he seems to be in a hopeless situation.

Home told him the sacristan that it will soon give up his cemetery a funeral. It is about a young woman who died shortly before her wedding. By comforting her utterly desperate bridegroom, Innocens finds his own peace again.

expenditure

  • Innocens. Stories from old Austria. Rupert, Leipzig 1939 a. ö.
  • In the anthology: F. v. S., Lieutenant Burda. Five novels. Series: Inexpensive Books, bb 369. Construction, Berlin 1976
  • Innocens ; critical ed. u. interpreted by Jens Stüben, Bonn 1986
  • Innocens . Vitalis, Prague 1999. ISBN 80-85938-67-7
  • Innocens. Tredition, Hamburg 2011 ISBN 3842412088 (can also be read online in online shops )

notes

  1. ↑ Contains: Innocens (1865). Marianne (1872). The Stone Knocker (1873). Vae victis! (1879). The Troglodytine (1889). Ginevra (1889). Costitz Castle (1892). Conte Gasparo (1897). The Fall of Man (1897). The Parzen (1898). Out of service (1902). The marriage of Mr. Stäudl (1902). Sappho (1904). The beneficiaries (1905). - The book was published in two different editions, as "Wehrmachtsausgabe" (210 pages, also published by Volckmar, Lpz.) And as (half) linen (528 pages)
  2. ↑ Contains: Innocens; The stone knocker; Lieutenant Burda; Doctor Trojan ; The benefactors. The text is also included in several other von Saar anthologies. An approximate overview of the anthology texts in the lemma Mr. Fridolin and his luck