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'Grimmelshausen invented a na ve, feckless hero with a guiless yet lovable persona whose innocent wisdom shows up fully the world around him, Simplicissimus comes to symbolise sanity in a depraved, degenerate Europe torn apart by the Thirty Years' War.' Jeremy Adler in The London Review of Books '.Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. It is Rabelasian in some respects, but more down to earth and melancholy.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times 'Mitchell's brilliant translation shares Grimmelshausen's lightness of touch and conveys the energy of a narrator thinking on his feet.' Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times

"""Grimmelshausen invented a naïve, feckless hero with a guileless, lovable persona whose innocent wisdom exposes the world around him. He symbolize sanity in a depraved, degenerate Europe torn apart by the Thirty Years' War."" -- Jeremy Adler, The London Review of Books ""Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. It is Rabelasian in some respects, but more down to earth and melancholy."" --Phil Baker, The Sunday Times"

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Johann Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen in 1621 or 1622. His early life was dominated by the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) in which he fought for both sides. He describes his first involvement in the war as a 'snotty-nosed ten-year-old musketeer' in his writing and served as a soldier until its end. His experiences in the Thirty years War are mirrored in his masterpiece, Simplicissimus which was first published in 1668 and was the first bestselling novel in Germany. Threel of his later work takes up themes and characters occurring in Simplicissimus, Mike Mitchell has been a freelance literary translator since 1995. He has published eighty-nine translations from German and French, His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize after he had been shortlisted in previous years for his translations of Stephanie by Herbert Rosendorfer and The Golem by Gustav Meyrink. His translations have been shortlisted four times for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, including for Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen.

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