The frontispiece of the so-called "phoenix copper" edition of this work features a fantastic creature with a human head, horse's ears, goat's legs, and webbed feet holding a book on which allegorical images are featured, all signifying a satyr, indicating the work's satirica
The frontispiece of the so-called "phoenix copper" edition of this work features a fantastic creature with a human head, horse's ears, goat's legs, and webbed feet holding a book on which allegorical images are featured, all signifying a satyr, indicating the work's satirical nature. The author repeatedly uses the term "fastnacht" to describe the feasts at Governor Ramsay's, emphasizing the continuation of courtly life amid the carnage occurring all around. Those fastnacht cause the title character's incredible farting bouts. After his knan's house is destroyed by pillaging soldiers, the title character flies with witches to Magdeburg, through the waters of Mummelsee to the center of the earth, and eventually ends up shipwrecked on an island off Guinea. A picaresque set during the Thirty Years' War, FTP name this prose work by Johann von Grimmelshausen.
The frontispiece of the so-called "phoenix copper" edition of this work features a fantastic creature with a human head, horse's ears, goat's legs, and webbed feet holding a book on which allegorical images are featured, all signifying a satyr, indicating the work's satirical nature.
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