In the canon
Anton Reiser
Karl Philipp Moritz
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1785
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 450
A poor, sensitive boy grows up under a joyless, strict religious household in eighteenth century Germany, and finds his only escape from poverty and humiliation in a growing, half desperate obsession with the theatre.
This psychological novel might equally well be called a biography, since its observations are for the most part taken from real life.
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