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Plot'Green Henry' details the life of Heinrich Lee from childhood through his first romantic encounters, his fledgling attempts at becoming a painter in Munich, and his eventual installation as a chancery clerk. The story gets its name from the color that Heinrich affected in dress.
Development'Green Henry' was written from 1850 to 1855. It is the most personal of all of Keller's works, and is significantly influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's doctrine of a return to nature. At first intended as a short narrative of the collapse of the life of a young artist, the book expanded as its composition progressed into a huge work that treats, in poetically transfigured manner, all the events in Keller's life up to his return to Zrich in 1842. Its reception by the literary world was cool, but after a revised edition was issued in 1879, it won general and often extravagant praise. EvaluationBenjamin W. Wells reviewed the book so:
Jacob Wittmer Hartmann characterizes the 2nd edition of 1879 and a rounded and satisfying artistic product. 'The New International Encyclopdia' praises the 2nd edition as a significant improvement over the first. See also*Bildungsroman NotesReferences* * ;Attribution * Category:1855 novels Category:Swiss bildungsromans Category:German bildungsromans Category:Autobiographical novels Category:Swiss novels Category:19th-century German novels | |
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