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Bonaventura's «Nachtwachen»: A Satirical Novel

Bonaventura's «Nachtwachen»: A Satirical Novel

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Series: Studies in Modern German Literature, Book 36

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0820412252
ISBN13: 9780820412252
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: May 1 1990
Pages: 169
Language: English
This book argues that Bonaventura's Nachtwachen presents us with richly complex and profound satirical treatment of eighteenth-century German society, of that society's censorial response to satirical works of art and, finally, of the artist who doggedly refuses to abandon the satirical mode of expression despite repeated persecution. As such, Bonaventura's work is anything but a testimony to a romantic sense of nihilistic despair. Indeed, as the text closes, the enlightenment principles professed by the nightwatchman/satirist endure, while the oppressive and censorial social order of the period finds its just end in the graveyard.

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