Peter Lebrecht - A Tale Devoid of Adventures - Ludwig Tieck

Name: Peter Lebrecht - A Tale Devoid of Adventures - Ludwig Tieck
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SKU: 9781969287060
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Peter Lebrecht: A Tale Devoid of Adventures by Ludwig Tieck, translated by Douglas Robertson / 192-page paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, published in the Empyrean Series (in 2026) by Sublunary / ISBN 9781969287060

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Peter Lebrecht (1795) is a comical first-person novel dealing with the efforts of a young writer to find an ethical place for himself in the world. Employing digression and self-commentary as his modus operandi, Tieck narrates Peter’s search for love, friendship, and gainful employment, while along the way parodying the literary conventions of his time and ironizing the relationship of the author to his readers. Through a process of literary self-consciousness that owes much to Laurence Sterne, Tieck lays bare his process of composition as a matter of authorial whim and metatextual play.

Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773—April 28, 1853) was a German writer who first gained recognition in the 1790s. Tieck’s many works include fantastic tales and fairy tales with historical themes, stage dramas, and several novels, including the long epistolary novel William Lovell (1796). In 1797, Tieck published his plays Ritter Blaubart [Bluebeard] and Der gestiefelte Kater [Puss in Boots] and his story Der blonde Eckbert [Fair Eckbert] in the collection Volksmärchen (1797) under the pseudonym of ‘Peter Lebrecht’—the hero of his 1795 novel. In later life edited the work of his contemporaries Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Heinrich von Kleist, as well as translations of the collected plays of William Shakespeare.

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