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Johannes Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Trutz Simplex / Courasche (1670)
[Spite Simplex / The Life of Courage]

By Gerhart Hoffmeister (Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara)

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  • Domain: Literature.
  • Genre: Novel, Picaresque.
  • Country: Germany, Continental Europe.

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The short novel Trutz Simplex: oder Ausführliche und wunderseltzame Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörzerin Courasche [Spite Simplex or [...] The Runagate Courage, 1670] forms part of Grimmelshausen’s “Simplician” cycle of novels that also includes Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus [The Adventurous Simplicissimus, 1669] and Der seltzame Springinsfeld [The Strange Hopalong, 1670]. Its publication under the author’s anagram Philarchus Grossus von Trommenheim auf Griffsberg constitutes a turning point in German Baroque literature (see entry). Up to the 1660s mos

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Published 23 May 2005

Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Trutz Simplex / Courasche [Spite Simplex / The Life of Courage]". The Literary Encyclopedia. 23 May 2005.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14754, accessed 9 February 2010.]

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