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Olympischer Fruehling

Nobel Prize in Literature

Olympischer Fruehling

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

A sweeping epic by Carl Spitteler that explores the relationship between gods and humans on a mythic scale. Written between 1900 and 1905 and revised in 1910, it is known for reworking Greek mythology in a modern idiom.

epic poetryGreek mythologysymbolismgods and mortalsSwiss literature

Work Information

A vast epic that layers the mythic world over the human one.

The epic poem that earned Spitteler the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature. It unfolds a mythic design around the relations among gods, heroes, and human beings in a major verse work. The original German text was confirmed in Antigonos Verlags 2025 edition.

Review Summaries

  • Readers appreciate the mythic scale and dense imagery, while some note that the poem can be difficult to read.

Book Information

Publisher
Antigonos Verlag
Published
2025-07-07
Pages
160 pages
Language
ドイツ語
Size
14.81 x 0.94 x 21.01 cm
ISBN-13
9783563402498
ISBN-10
3563402493
Price
7551 JPY
Category
洋書/Literature & Fiction/Foreign Language Fiction

Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1905. Der Verlag Antigonos spezialisiert sich auf die Herausgabe von Nachdrucken historischer Bücher. Wir achten darauf, dass diese Werke der Öffentlichkeit in einem guten Zustand zugänglich gemacht werden, um ihr kulturelles Erbe zu bewahren.

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