Thiel - Softcover

Hauptmann, Gerhart

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9781500384265: Thiel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1500384267 ISBN 13: 9781500384265
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

"Thiel" is by far the best story ever written by Gerhart Hauptmann, a dramatist, novelist and a Nobel Prize winner.

The novel follows the principles of the naturalist movement in its detailed portraying of the life of Thiel, a good decent and humble railway signalman.

The novel relies on symbolic and impressionist techniques and goes beyond the scientific naturalist approach to explore and portray Thiel's inner life with its many complex interaction of suppressed social, psychological, and religious impulses.

Thiel was first published in German as "Bahnwärter Thiel" or "Signalman Thiel".

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About the Author

Gerhart Hauptmann gained fame as one of the founders of German Naturalism. Hauptmann's first play, Before Surnrise, was acknowledged as the beginning of an important new literary movement in Germany. Hauptmann's dramatic genius is incontestable, but he has never seemed able to settle on any one form as best suited to express his dramatic intentions. "The Weavers" for example, a play that caused considerable stir when it was first presented, is most unusual in that it was concerned with a whole community and has neither hero nor heroine, while "The Sunken Bell", was centered around one man's struggle for expression.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1500384267
ISBN 13 
9781500384265
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
54
Rating
  • 3.30 out of 5 stars
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