Obermann

By Étienne Pivert de Senancour · Running time 17:35:17 · Epistolary Fiction

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This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ignored by the reading public when it was first published during the period of Napoleonic Wars in 1804, it was rediscovered almost 30 years later by the Romantics, praised by none less than Balzac and George Sand, as well as Franz Liszt and other illustrious persons of that time period. Obermann is an epistolary novel in the form of a journal intime , in which the inner life of the main character is the most important element, rather than the physical action. The s

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