Schelmenromane (war: VineLand-IntraVenös)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

>>> In A.D. 1618, 12 million lived in Germany. Then came the great war.
>>> In A.D. 1648 only 4 million still lived in Germany.
>>> (opening to Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera Simplicius Simplicissimus)


>> Vielleicht könntest Du noch einen VL-spezifischen
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> simply Simplicius fever...glee that someone wrote an opera about a
> novel I remember as being very good...if there is a Pynchon
> connection, let alone a Vineland connection (and I'm not saying ...
>


Hmm ... Still a disturbing way to express your joy about the existence of
Hartmann's opera ... Me would have prefered the following:


http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mb_JWK1Hg


I agree, however, that Grimmelshausen's novel is a forerunner of "Gravity's Rainbow".


KFL+