Green Henry: Annotated Edition

by Gottfried Keller, A.M. Holt (Translator)

Overview

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle Anna and the proud and sensual Judith, is one of the most outstanding and personal Bildungsroman writ¬ten in the German language.

Composed between 1846 and 1855, Keller's poetic, semi-autobiographical novel draws on the author's own youth, artistic studies and development as a man, as well as providing a comprehensive portrait of his country and his times. Green Henry is one of the most important novels in European literature, and undoubtedly the greatest work of fiction by a Swiss writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847498922
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	03/26/2024
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	5.15(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Reaching the height of his fame for the semi-autobiographical novel Green Henry, Gottfried Keller (1819–90) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Swiss-German writers.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Part I
1	In Praise of my Origin	3
2	Father and Mother	9
3	Childhood. Elementary Theology. The School Bench	18
4	In Praise of God and of My Mother. Prayer	25
5	Little Meret	31
6	More about God. Dame Margaret and Her People	38
7	More about Dame Margaret	45
8	Childish Misdemeanour	57
9	The Morningtide of School Life	61
10	The Child at Play	67
11	Concerning the Theatre, Gretchen and the Long-tailed Monkey	74
12	The Family of Readers. Time of Lies	83
13	Springtime in Arms. Youthful Debts	91
14	Childish Boasting. Money Troubles	101
15	Peace in Retirement. My First Adversary and his Downfall	108
16	Bungling Teachers and Bad Pupils	116
17	Escape to Mother Nature	124
18	My Kindred	128
19	The New Life	135
20	Ideas of a Vocation	142
21	A Sabbath Idyll. The Schoolmaster and His Child	148
Part II
1	The Choice of a Career. My Mother and her Counsellors	161
2	Judith and Anna	167
3	Romance among the Beans	173
4	The Dance of Death	181
5	The Beginning of Work	189
6	The Swindler	201
7	Continuation	208
8	Springtime Again	213
9	War between the Philosopher and the Girls	227
10	The Tribunal in the Arbour	233
11	Religious Difficulties	240
12	The Confirmation Day	253
13	The Carnival Play	261
14	Tell	269
15	Table-Talk	275
16	The Country at Evening	286
17	The Friars	292
18	Judith	300
Part III
1	Work and Contemplation	311
2	A Miracle, and a Real Master	317
3	Anna	327
4	Judith	332
5	The Master's Folly, and his Pupil's	339
6	Suffering and Life	349
7	Death and Burial of Anna	356
8	Judith Goes Too	365
9	The Title-deed	371
10	The Skull	379
11	The Artists	404
12	Other People's Love Affairs	422
13	Carnival Again	434
14	A Fight between Fools	454
15	The Whimsy	489
Part IV
1	The Borghese Gladiator	505
2	Concerning Free Will	513
3	Modes of Living	520
4	The Miracle of the Flute	535
5	The Mysteries of Work	551
6	Dreams of Home	569
7	More Dreams	580
8	The Wandering Skull	591
9	At the Castle	600
10	The Luck Turns	612
11	Dorothea Schonfund	623
12	The Frozen Christian	635
13	The Iron Image	652
14	The Return and an Ave Caesar	675
15	The Course of the World	686
16	God's Table	695

Editorial Reviews

Scholars often hail this as Keller's finest work. Released in 1853, the book has autobiographical overtones as it relates the life of a man struggling under the weight of demands imposed upon him by family, country, and his own artistic ambitions. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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