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This either tragic or simply too mediocre shape, Adalbert Stifter , has written the "mountain crystal ", a recognized work of German literature, which is in a reputation among friends of exciting literature, to be a real boring.
Whoever starts this work is really difficult with it pretty quickly, he wonders z. For example, why the writer presents us with an introduction in which he explains to us in a proud 735 words ... It goes on something like that, Stifter uses another 16,671 words to tell us his story about the siblings who have strayed in the mountain. With the author of this article, the sentences have been getting longer and more, more likely to color.
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The story would actually be very brief to tell:
The siblings Konrad and Sanna get lost in the mountains on Christmas Eve and have to spend the night in a stone cavity. Konrad and Sanna are the children of parents who come from two villages separated by a high mountain - to move over to the other village and then also testify to children, is outrageous, the villages are more than suspicious.
Foreign hatred or not, the children are not allowed to end on the mountain, and so the residents of both villages jump for a joint rescue operation about their prejudiced shadows, the children are saved, the villagers reconcile themselves, even the mother of the children is finally accepted in the new village, everything is good ...
All of this is created by Stifter around Christmas, much symbolic material for the "happy ending". Then there is still a lot of uncontrollable nature that are helplessly at the mercy, films like "The Core" and "2012" can hardly keep up in the drama (ironic? Yes!).
Have you long been wandering in the car, where the (male) driver in the middle of the field, at the end of the Knüppelweg, still claimed to know exactly where he has to go? Then in Stifter's story you will get to know the Alm Höhi variant of this male-typical behavior: Konrad leads his little sister in absolute ignorance, but with great linguistic roar deep into the ultimate hopeless snow hole.
Stifter calls strong my mind of ignorance , an expression that the noisy observers of current current events could take pleasure in order to transfer it to some lecture by an executive body or media representative ...
The girl Sanna definitely seems to know the choleric outbreaks that can follow reasonable orientation suggestions, she has nothing more to say in the whole piece than: "Yes, Konrad". However, she says that 17 times, "I hurt my eyes" and "I don't see any more trees" twice each, and she probably can't think of anymore.
Depending on the temperament and at the latest in "Yes, Konrad" No. 17, this is powerful to the reader, and in this context he is now noticeable in this context that under the 17,406 words that founders have lined up for his history, quite a few words are quite superfluous.
Twice "pretty" is also superfluous? Yes, of course, but it is a kind of sarcastic self-defense reaction to the founder text. Because founder dealing with language gives reason to criticize, as in the article “German literature, the greatest works: a critical view of the language in Adalbert Stifter's“ Bergkristall ” will be shown, and this handling of language that has caused the“ bad reputation ”of this work.
However, the content has completely different references to the present than the typical behavior of the male gender outlined above, and if you don't see any current covers behind this story, it is probably also lacking imagination.
Peoples living side by side who make life unnecessarily difficult for each other with infantile distrust?
Israel and Palestine, China and Japan, Türkiye and Greece, Russia and Ukraine - all today, in 2010 ff.
if you enjoy the German language , you will also find a few nice formulations from the boring founder: the "strong courage of ignorance" mentioned above, really great, "fine -groped forests", "mountains, who stroke with smooth edges in the shiny sky", "stars that shine, sparkled and trembling and only shooting out of only shooting", "the sun that stands on the talent", " "Zaubrische gifts" and "milk blue of the distant snow" are not bad either.
Maybe we see it all but also very wrong and founders just take us strongly on the shovel with all this long -winded representation. One could at least come up with this daring idea when you read that Friedrich Nietzsche, who was, who was, who was, who was, who was, who was faded and loved, appreciated the language -sized writers Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane and Hermann Hesse and even the sharp -tongued satirist Karl Kraus Adalbert Stifter's work.
Against the background of this debate, a closer look at the linguistic expression of Stifter is worth reading in the article "German literature, the greatest works: a critical view of the language in Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall".
