Menander and Glycerion
Menander and Glycerion is a relatively unknown novel by Christoph Martin Wieland . In the form of a letter novel, he tells a fictional story in Hellenistic antiquity , although the figure of Menander is based on a historically real comedy poet.
In addition to the elegant linguistic form typical of Wieland and the humor that is also characteristic of him, which draws his characters partly as ideal figures, but partly also as people with flaws, in this little novel it is remarkable that the female protagonist Overall, the male protagonist is neither mentally nor physically inferior, neither in cleverness or ethos, consequently in character, nor in outward beauty or grace, on the contrary, the author lets the apparently protagonist Menander at the end compared to the now as it were true Glycerion became the protagonist, looking rather old. Both characters develop in the course of the plot, which goes on for a few years - in this respect it is also a development novel . Menander in particular gets to know his mistakes and limits, Glycerion is developing from an inexperienced girl from the provinces to a still beautiful, but now smarter and more mature woman, but still mentally and emotionally intelligent and at the same time morally integrity woman who is at End by the way decides for another.
expenditure
- Menander and Glycerion. A romance novel in letters. With an afterword by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Insel Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2002