Obermann

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Epistolary Fiction

Authors: Étienne Pivert de Senancour In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

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Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 1
Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 2
Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 3
Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 4
Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 5
Prefatory Observations by the Author
First Year, Letters I and II
First Year, Letters III and IV
First Year, Letters V and VI
First Year, Letters VII and VIII
First Year, Letter IX and Second Year, Letter X
Second Year, Letters XI and XII
Second Year, Letters XIII and XIV
Second Year, Letters XV, XVI and XVII
Second Year, Letters XVIII, XIX and XX
Second Year, Letters XXI and XXII
Second Year, Letters XXIII, XXIV and XXV
Third Year, Letters XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII
Third Year, Letters XXIX, XXX and XXXI
Third Year, Letters XXXII and XXXIII
Third Year, Letters XXXIV and XXXV
Fifth Year, the First Fragment
Sixth Year, the Second Fragment
Sixth Year, Letters XXXVI and XXXVII
Sixth Year, Letter XXXVIII
Sixth Year, the Third Fragment
Sixth Year, Letters XXXIX and XL
Sixth Year, Letter XLI
Sixth Year, Letters XLII and XLIII
Sixth Year, Letter XLIV
Sixth Year, Letter XLV
Sixth Year, Letter XLVI
Sixth Year, Letter XLVII
Sixth Year, Letters XLVIII and XLIX
Seventh Year, Letter L
Seventh Year, Letter LI
Seventh Year, Letter LII
Eighth Year, Letters LIII, LIV, LV and LVI
Eighth Year, Letters LVII, LVIII and LIX
Eighth Year, Letters LX and LXI
Eighth Year, Letters LXII and LXIII
Eighth Year, Letter LXIV
Eighth Year, Letter LXV
Eighth Year, Letters LXVI and LXVII
Eighth Year, Letter LXVIII
Eighth Year, Letters LXIX and LXX
Eighth Year, Letters LXXI and LXXII
Eighth Year, Letter LXXIII and Ninth Year, Letters LXXIV and LXXV
Ninth Year, Letters LXXVI and LXXVII
Ninth Year, Letters LXXVIII and LXXIX
Ninth Year, Letters LXXX and LXXXI
Ninth Year, Letters LXXXII, LXXXIII and LXXXIV
Ninth Year, Letters LXXXV and LXXXVI
Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVII
Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVIII
Ninth Year, Letter LXXXIX
Supplement - Tenth Year, Letter XC
Supplement - Letter XCI, Without Known Date

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 story spans ten years, in which Obermann describes historical events, the progress of philosophical ideas, and, most strikingly, his emotional development.

A.E. Waite succeeds to translate this work in a fittingly poetic way, transporting haunting images of loneliness, nausée, and lack of orientation. - Summary by Carolin