Zurich novellas
The Züricher Novellen (written like this, not with the Zürcher form used today in Switzerland ) are a cycle of novels by Gottfried Keller .
The three novels of the first volume are linked by a narrative frame , which is itself a novella. This is not the case with the two novellas of the second volume.
construction
- First volume:
- Second volume:
Emergence
The novellas Hadlaub , Der Narr auf Manegg and Der Landvogt von Greifensee appeared between November 1876 and April 1877 as a preprint in the journal Deutsche Rundschau and formed the first volume of the Zurich novellas published in 1877. The second volume contained the flag of the seven upright ones , which had been published for the first time 17 years earlier, as well as the final novella Ursula as a new publication . The cycle was combined in the Collected Works of 1889 in one volume.
After the publication of The People of Seldwyla in 1856, Keller declared that he now "wanted to change the tone". While the Seldwylers acted in front of a fictional Swiss landscape, the Zurich residents are now brought to a historical background. The Manessian song manuscript can be found in Hadlaub , the Manegg castle ruins in Der Narr auf Manegg ; the Anabaptists are processed in Ursula . Also, a "didactic intention" (421) is now more clearly in the foreground - as the framework novella about Mr. Jacques puts forward and most clearly describes The Flag of the Seven Upright .
Framework amendment
The framework novella ties the first three novellas together in the story of an old uncle who wants to illustrate the old (better) times to his docile nephew.
The adolescent Jacques, who lived in Zurich at the end of the 1820s , was preoccupied with the idea of how he could become an "original", like his ancestors, in his time. On a contemplative hike he meets his uncle in a group of Constaff people who are celebrating their annual mortar shooting. The uncle, who senses the boy's oppression, immediately devotes some time to him telling him stories from old Zurich and separating the true "original people" from the imitators and show-offs. The "Tower of Manessen" (23), in which "the spiders and bats live on the dark screed" and "the butcher [...] dries his skins" (24) or "a lonely cobbler in the high room" hammers are formed Reason for the first of the novellas.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After: Gottfried Keller, Complete Works. New critical edition with extensive commentary ; 7 vols., (= BDK 41-48), ed. v. Thomas Böning u. a .; Vol. 5: Zurich novellas , Frankfurt a. M. 1989.