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Also one. A travel acquaintance is a novel by the German writer Friedrich Theodor Vischer . The first edition of the novel was published in two volumes in 1879.

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In the first volume, the narrator meets the main character during a trip through Switzerland, who initially remains anonymous and wants to remain anonymous, therefore the narrator uses the initials A. E. (for “also one” - hence the title). The protagonist A. E. shows himself to be a hero who is haunted in an almost tragic way by the intricacies of the object . However, he does not want to be helplessly at the mercy of the meanness of things; he also occasionally takes revenge by "executing" objects that have particularly bothered him and taken it too far. H. destroyed. In addition, A. E. is unlucky to have a constant cold, which is why he gets into embarrassing situations when he sneezes and coughs at an inappropriate place. The first-person narrator despises him for these unmanly qualities, but realizes that behind these ridiculous features he hides courage and perseverance. He indicates that there is more in him with his constant sentence “the moral goes without saying”.

Finally, they split up and a time later the narrator receives a posthumous manuscript from A. E., which contains the satirical story "The visit: a stake village story" (which forms the rest of the first volume). - The astronomer Max Wolf named the asteroids (500) Selinur , (501) Urhixidur and (502) Sigune based on characters from this story .

In the second volume the narrator visits the hometown of the late A. E., who turns out to be Albert Einhart. Einhart made the narrator the administrator of his literary estate. The sentences and reflections extracted from Einhart's diaries then form the remainder of the second volume.

reception

The novel, although unusually structured and with an eccentric as the protagonist, was very successful and was reprinted well into the 20th century.

The term “the problem of the object” has become an imprint on the general consciousness. In this context, the book also plays a role in Heimito from Doderer's grotesque novel Die Merowinger or Die totale Familie from 1962. There the book serves as a mark of identification for the agents of the metaphysical company "Hulesch & Quentzel Ltd." in London.

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"The moral always goes without saying."

- AE

expenditure

  • Also one. A travel acquaintance . 2 vols. Hallberger, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1879.
  • 2nd, revised edition, 2 vols., 1879.
  • 3rd, revised edition, 2 vols., 1884, 1894.
  • 5th edition. With a collotype after the bust of Friedrich Theodor Vischer by A. Donndorf, 2 vol., 1893, 1897 7 , 1900 8 ( digitized ), Leipzig / Stuttgart 1903 10 .
  • 25th total edition of the anniversary edition. 1904.
  • Popular edition in one volume 1. – 5. Th., Stuttgart / Leipzig 1904. 10. Th., 1904.
  • 33rd total edition of 23,000 of the Volksausg. 1906.
  • 34-38 Total circulation 34–38. Th. The Volksausg. in one volume, Stuttgart 1906-1910.
  • 49-61 Total edition 39–51. Thousand of the Volksausg., 1910–1914.
  • 80-89. Edition, 1917
  • 112-116. Edition, 1920.
  • 117-125 Th., 1921-1923.
  • Leipzig 1919. Afterword by Franziska Feilbogen
  • Works of world literature. Propylaea, Berlin 1923.
  • Singer-Bücher, Berlin 1923. Edited and provided with a foreword by Gerhard Menz.
  • Paul Franke, Berlin 1924?
  • Hädeckes thin print editions, Stuttgart 1924.
  • Cheap gems 7 (= Volksgunst Library 31), Berlin 1925.
  • The silver books 52, Berlin 1928.
  • Knaurs Ewige Bücher (= Kunsthist. Novels 95), Berlin 1928.
  • Die Schatzkammer 95, Berlin 1930. Edited by Theodor Kappstein.
  • Schwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft, Würmelingen 1983, ISBN 3-88466-025-X (reprint of the Berlin 1936 edition)
  • Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1987 (Insel taschenbuch 1063) With an afterword by Otto Borst.

literature

  • Ilona Waldbauer: Contributions to the genesis of the novel "Also One" . Budapest 1912.
  • Franziska Feilbogen : Friedrich Theodor Vischer's “Also One” . Zurich 1916.
  • Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer: The Road to "Also One" . PMLA. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 75 (1960), pp. 83-96.
  • Reinhold Grimm: On the history of the impact of Vischer's “Also One”. In: Helmut Kreuzer (Ed.): Design history and social history. Literature, art and musicological studies. Stuttgart 1969, pp. 352-381.
  • Walter Horace Bruford : "Also One" (1879). In: Ders .: The German Tradition of Self Cultivation. "Education" from Humboldt to Thomas Mann. London 1975, pp. 147-163.
  • Wendelin Haverkamp : Aspects of Modernity. Investigations into the history of the "also one" by Friedrich Theodor Vischer . Aachen 1981.
  • Petra Mayer: Between uncertain knowledge and certain ignorance. Narrated knowledge formations in Stifter's “Der Nachsommer” and Vischer's “Auch Eine” . Bielefeld 2014.
  • Günter Oesterle: The burial of the self in the other and the salvation of the self in the anonymous. On the interrelationship between biography and autobiography in the second half of the 19th century using the example of Friedrich Theodor Vischer's “Auch Eine”. In: Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand (ed.): From the other to the self. Contributions to questions of biography and autobiography. Koenigstein / Ts. 1982, pp. 45-70.
  • Ingrid Oesterle: Bad history. Autobiographical self-exposure, comical self-incriminations and conditional cynical self-assertion in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel “Auch Eine”. In: Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand (ed.): From the other to the self. Contributions to questions of biography and autobiography. Koenigstein / Ts. 1982, pp. 71-93.
  • Gotthart Wunberg : incomprehensibility. Historicism and literary modernity. In: Ders .: turn of the century. Studies on Modern Literature . Narr, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8233-5218-0 , pp. 111–148, here pp. 127–130 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

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