The Federfuchser/Penpusher from Lessing to Grillparzer: A Study Focused on Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg

By William C. Reeve

Reeve provides a detailed discussion of Klesel's importance in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and examines possible predecessors for the Federfuchser: Wurm from Friedrich von Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, the Sekret r in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die nat rliche Tochter, and Leonhard in Friedrich Hebbel's Maria Magdalene. He focuses on the features they share, such as deep-seated resentment of social superiors who, by a mere accident of birth, have power over them and, above all, the cunning that they use to overcome their social disqualifications.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773512985
• ISBN13: 9780773512986
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages