Biography EssayGottfried Keller—poet, critic, and Switzerland's most prominent writer of fiction—aspired initially to be a landscape painter; it was only after his reluctant and costly det...
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The Swiss short-story writer, novelist, and poet Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was a master of the realistic novella and author of one of the outstanding German novels of his age.Gottfried Keller was b...
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Gottfried Keller--poet, critic, and Switzerland's most prominent writer of fiction--aspired initially to be a landscape painter; it was only after his reluctant and costly determination that he lacked...
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In this favorable review, the critic praises the simplicity and poetic nature of the language in Keller's novella .
Mrs. Wharton's "Introduction" to this novelette of a ...
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In the following essay, Jennings DISCusses the role of the grotesque in Keller's work, maintaining that it has a social as well as a personal function in his short fiction.
Exceedingly stra...
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In the following excerpt, Hahn determines the importance of humor and playfulness in Keller's work, concluding that it is integral to the objective and honest nature of his short fiction.
Ke...
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In the following excerpt, Lindsay examines stylistic and thematic elements of the short fiction comprising Sieben Legenden and Das Sinngedicht.
Although not published till 1871, the Legends origina...
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In the following essay, Lindsay provides an overview of Keller's life and short fiction.
Gottfried Keller is the representative author of the German Swiss. In a way that is true of no other ...
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In this excerpt, Radandt contends that the short fiction comprising Züricher Novellen focuses on times of cultural, historical and social change.
The claim has been made that Keller portrays ...
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In the following review, Agee offers a favorable assessment of Keller's collected stories.
Every Swiss, Austrian and East German teenager learns to regard Gottfried Keller, the Swiss writer...
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In the following excerpt, Holub examines the theme of incest in Keller's novella.
[Realism] can best be understood as an effect of the literary text rather than some quality inherent in the...
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In the following excerpt, Swales asserts that greed subverts the fairy-tale quality of the Keller's novella Spiegel the Cat.
First conceived in 1855, this fairy-tale recounts how Spiegel, th...
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Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller
Critical Review by New York Times Book Review
