by Franz Grillparzer · Ellago Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495881083
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«El pobre músico» is Franz Grillparzer's romantic novel, published by Ellago Ediciones in hardcover (96 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Jakob, a musician whose love and vocation embody the tension between artistic longing and reality. With echoes of Schopenhauer, creation is a suffering that only dissolves when life becomes a work of art. Grillparzer merges the autobiographical with the social milieu of his time; Franz Kafka kept it as bedside reading.
Translation by Eva Fructuoso. First edition, number 1 of the Letras collection. Original title: 'Der arme Spielmann' (1848).
A brief work for those seeking Central European Romantic classics and wanting to discover a text that Franz Kafka admired and read aloud.
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He also wrote the oration for his longtime friend Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral, as well as the epitaph for his friend Franz Schubert.
