Simplicissimus (English spelling) The abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch

Japanese: ジンプリチシムス（英語表記）Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch

A novel by the German author Grimmelshausen. Five volumes. Published in 1668 (1669 printed on the book). Original title: Simplicissimus the Adventurous. Also known as the translation of The Tale of the Fool. An ignorant and naive boy called Simplicissimus (meaning "the great fool"), who grew up on a farm, is educated by a hermit in the forest, and then goes out into the world, where he experiences various things such as working as a page and a clown, committing robbery as a soldier, and being captured, and through these experiences he comes to know the world, but in the end he realizes the impermanence of this world and retreats to the mountains as a hermit. A sixth volume was later added, telling the story of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in search of inner peace, and being washed ashore by a storm on a remote island in the South Seas, where he finds peace and ends his life there. Following the style of Spanish "rogue novels," this is one of the masterpieces of German liberal arts novels, depicting the growth of one man and the salvation of his soul in the chaotic society of the Thirty Years' War. It was long ignored, but was rediscovered by the Romantics.

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Japanese:

ドイツの作家グリンメルスハウゼンの小説。5巻。 1668年刊 (本には 1669年と印刷されている) 。原題『冒険好きのジンプリチシムス』。『阿呆物語』の訳名でも知られる。農家で育ったジンプリチシムス (「大馬鹿者」の意) と呼ばれる無知で世間知らずの少年が，森の中で隠者から教育を受けたのち世間に出て，小姓，道化役者をつとめたり，兵隊として略奪強盗を働いたり，捕虜となったりのさまざまな体験を重ね，世界を知るようになるが，結局現世の無常を悟り，隠者として山にこもる。のち第6巻を加え，心の平和を求めてエルサレムへ巡礼の旅に出かけ，途中嵐のため南海の孤島に漂着して，そこで平安を得て生涯を終えるまでを語る。スペインの「悪者小説」の流れをくみ，三十年戦争時代の混沌とした社会での一人の人間の成長と魂の救済を描いたドイツ教養小説の傑作の一つ。長らく無視されていたが，ロマン派によって再評価された。

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