biography
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Raabe, Wilhelm
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pseudonym Jakob Corvinus
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pronunciation:
[rahbuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1831–1910)
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| biography:
| Writer and artist, born in Eschershausen, NW Germany. His first novel, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1857), describes life in a Berlin street in a richly detailed, atmospheric manner reminiscent of William Thackeray. He was one of the most important exponents of realism, and wrote several novels reflecting contemporary life and society. In his later work he increasingly used irony and humour in a manner which shows him to be a pioneer of Modernism, as in Horacker (1876) and Stopfkuchen (1891). |
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