Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius , born with Głogów in Silesia the October 11th 1616 and dead the July 16th 1664, is a poet Baroque and German dramatic author.
Biography
Orphan as of his young age, it grows during the Guerre Thirty Year old, and deeply marked by the atrocities of this war, it writes the tears of the fatherland ( Die Tränen of Vaterlandes ), collection of poems appeared in 1636. Its work fits in a current of revalorization of the literature in German language, it is inspired indeed by the traditional models, showing a great formal rigor, while renewing the subjects of literary inspiration: he adds, for example, with the inspiration profane his sonnets a dimension in philosophical matter. He enjoys a certain notoriety, especially gràce with his tragedies ( Charles Stuart, or the sovereign assassinated , 1649) and his comedies ( the beloved Wild rose , 1657). The literature of Andreas Gryphius is very representative of the still young thought baroque, presenting a moving and unstable world in which the man has an existence transitory and subjected to the quirks of fates; this vision of the man is all the more dark as it grows and lives in a Germany devastated by plunderings and the massacres of the war.
Translated texts
Gryphius (Andreas), the Legist magnanime or the death of Emilien Paul Papinien / Größmütiger Rechstgelehrter oder Sterbender Aemilius Pauls Papinianus , translated by Jean-Louis Raffy, Sapwood, German Field: bilingual, Paris, 1993,340p.
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