biography
pronunciation:
[keler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1819–90)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Zürich, N Switzerland, the leading exponent of bourgeois realism. His experiences as an impoverished art student in Munich (1841–2) inspired Der grüne Heinrich (1854–5, 2nd edn 1879–80), developing the Bildungsroman tradition of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister: vividly descriptive in style, its mood ranges from comic to melancholic and tragic. His broad narrative palette is revealed also in his novellas, characteristically in Die Leute von Seldwyla (1856), with its richness of internal and external event. Among other major works, which include fine examples of the ‘Dorfgeschichte’ of village life, are the Sieben Legenden (1872), Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1876), Die Züricher Novellen (1877–8, including the story Das Fähnlein der Sieben Aufrechten), the story Das Sinngedicht (1881), the Gesammelte Gedichte (1883), and the novel Martin Salander (1886). |
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