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XXX. Pessimism in Raabe's Stuttgart Trilogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

There has been a great deal of discussion as to whether or not the three novels which Wilhelm Raabe composed during his period of residence in Stuttgart (Der Hunger pastor, 1864; Abu Telfan, 1868; Der Schüdderump, 1870) constitute a genuine trilogy. One may cavil at this transference of a specialized term from the drama to three novels to which it is not wholly applicable. On the other hand, one may defend this term as a convenient, though not entirely accurate designation of the essential unity of these three novels.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1924 , pp. 687 - 704
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1924

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1 “Aile Poesie ist symbolisch. Schilderung der Wirklichkeit höchstens nur ein interessantes Lesewerk,” etc. Gedanken uni Emfälle, Werke, Berlin-Grunewald (Klemm), III, 6, p. 582.

2 Ibid., p. 592.

3 Werke, III, 1, p. 293.

4 Ibid., p. 408.

5 Werke, I, 1, p. 467.

6 “Das unbiegsame, kräftige, feurige Weib, das sich in Trotz und Unmut vergeblich gegen kleinliche Verhältnisse abângstigt und in zorniger Schonheit an verachteten Ketten zerrt,” ibid.

7 Neither Sophie nor her mother is further identified; they are simply insignificant cases of the suffering of the poor.

8 Werke, I, 1, p. 497.

9 Ibid., p. 336.

10 Ibid., p. 482.

11 Ibid., p. 501.

12 Ibid., p. 369.

13 Ibid., p. 377.

14 Ibid., pp. 506, 554.

15 Ibid., p. 461.

16 Werke, III, 6, p. 239.

17 Werke, I, 1, p. 189.

18 Ibid. p. 252.

19 Ibid. p. 442.

20 Ibid., p. 461.

21 Ibid., p. 335.

22 Eulenpfingslen, Werke, II, 4, pp. 263–264.

23 Aile Nester, Werke, II, 6, p. 163.

24 Werke, III, 6, p. 551.

25 Werke, I, 1, pp. 332–333.

26 Ibid., p. 474.

27 Werke, II, 1, p. 36.

28 Werke, III, 6, p. 553.

29 Ibid., p. 556.

30 Ibid., p. 576.

31 Werke, II, 1, pp. 200–201.

32 Ibid., p. 377.

33 Ibid., p. 378.

34 Ibid., p. 83.

36 Ibid., p. 276.

36 Ibid., p. 277.

37 Ibid., p. 279.

38 Ibid., p. 121.

39 Ibid. p. 33.

40 Ibid., pp. 113–114.

41 Ibid., p. 157.

42 Ibid., p. 336.

43 Ibid., pp. 409–410; Raabe's “See von Plagen” is doubtless an allusion to Hamlet's “sea of troubles” (Hamlet, III, 1), which is thus translated by Schlegel-Tieck.

44 Ibid., p. 295; for numerous allusions to armed resistance to the world, cf. pp. 130, 131, 134, 167, 250.

45 Ibid., p. 62.

46 Ibid., p. 34.

47 Ibid., p. 389.

48 Ibid., p. 117.

49 Werke, III, 6, p. 562

50 Ibid., p. 570.

51 Werke, II, 1, p 240

52 Ibid., pp. 410–411.

53 Werke, III, 1, pp. 4–5.

54 Ibid., p. 247.

55 Ibid., p. 120.

56 Ibid., p. 129.

57 Ibid., pp. 339–340.

58 Ibid., p. 139.

59 Ibid., p. 209.

60 Ibid., p. 46.

61 Ibid., pp. 161, 163.

62 Ibid., p. 186.

63 Ibid., p. 175.

64 Ibid., p. 78.

65 Ibid., p. 379.

66 Ibid., p. 385.

67 Ibid. p. 389.

68 Ibid., p. 381.

69 Ibid., pp. 381, 391.

70 For these expressions, cf. respectively ibid., pp. 345,66,80,117,150,85, 88, 184–185, 228.

71 Ibid., pp. 146–147.

72 Ibid., p. 55.

73 Ibid., p. 340.

74 Ibid., p. 405.

75 Ibid., p. 392.

76 Ibid., p. 325.

77 Ibid., pp. 360, 400, 407–408.

78 Ibid., pp. 327, 328.

79 Ibid., pp. 265–266.

80 Ibid., p. 74.

81 Ibid., p. 189.

82 Ibid., pp. 173–174.

83 Ibid. p. 183.

84 Ibid., p. 305.

85 Ibid., p. 165.

86 Ibid., p. 273.

87 Ibid., p. 134.

88 Werke, III, 6, p. 589.

89 Harald Höffding, Den store Humor, trans, by Heinrich Goebel (Humor als Lebensgefühl), Leipzig & Berlin (Teubner), 1918.