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History of the Abderites

Christoph Martin Wieland's comic novel History of the Abderites (1774-81) is, in its author's own words, a "work that was written to entertain all intelligent people and to admonish and chastise all fools." It is thus a part of that tradition in European literature that includes Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools (1494) and the Praise of Folly (1509) by Erasmus. The target of Wieland's wit and humor is the provinciality, lack of taste, pedantry, backwardness, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, and sodden contentment with things as they are, which he found in people all around him. But instead of attacking the follies of his German contemporaries directly, he sets his novel in the small Thracian city-state of Abdera in the fifth century B.C. This novel is one of the sprightliest literary achievements of the Enlightenment in Germany, and reveals that Wieland was a kindred spirit of Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne.

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  • "Christoph Martin Wieland's comic novel History of the Abderites (1774-81) is, in its author's own words, a "work that was written to entertain all intelligent people and to admonish and chastise all fools." It is thus a part of that tradition in European literature that includes Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools (1494) and the Praise of Folly (1509) by Erasmus. The target of Wieland's wit and humor is the provinciality, lack of taste, pedantry, backwardness, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, and sodden contentment with things as they are, which he found in people all around him. But instead of attacking the follies of his German contemporaries directly, he sets his novel in the small Thracian city-state of Abdera in the fifth century B.C. This novel is one of the sprightliest literary achievements of the Enlightenment in Germany, and reveals that Wieland was a kindred spirit of Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne."
  • "Christoph Martin Wieland's comic novel History of the Abderites (1774-81) is, in its author's own words, a "work that was written to entertain all intelligent people and to admonish and chastise all fools." It is thus a part of that tradition in European literature that includes Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools (1494) and the Praise of Folly (1509) by Erasmus. The target of Wieland's wit and humor is the provinciality, lack of taste, pedantry, backwardness, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, and sodden contentment with things as they are, which he found in people all around him. But instead of attacking the follies of his German contemporaries directly, he sets his novel in the small Thracian city-state of Abdera in the fifth century B.C. This novel is one of the sprightliest literary achievements of the Enlightenment in Germany, and reveals that Wieland was a kindred spirit of Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne."@en

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  • "Mock-heroic literature"
  • "Mock-heroic literature"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Translations"
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  • "Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte"
  • "Die Abderiten : eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte"
  • "Die Abderiten : Eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte"
  • "Die Abderiten"
  • "Zerkalo dli︠a︡ vsi︠e︡kh, ili Zabavnai︠a︡ povi︠e︡stʹ o drevnikh Abderant︠s︡akh, v kotoroĭ vsi︠a︡k znakomykh bez koldovstva uvidi︠e︡tʹ mozhet"
  • "Die Abderiten eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte"
  • "Die Abderiten : Eine sehrwahrscheinliche Geschichte"
  • "Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte vom Herrn Hofrath Wieland"
  • "Die Abderiten Eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte vom Herrn Hofrath Wieland"
  • "History of the Abderites"
  • "History of the Abderites"@en

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