Abstract

THE claim of realism, once made for Grimmelshausen, has recently been denied after careful stylistic study.1 Paul Hankamer accepts the criticism of Alewyn and makes a more general judgement when he states that Grimmelshausen was not trying to paint a clear picture of the peasantry and soldiery of his time, but was concerned rather with an 'Urbild des Menschen ,2 This does not mean that the novelist tried to cut

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