< >In 1898 Wilhelm Raabe proclaimed his historical narrativeHastenbeckt be the“companion piece” to his 1888 novelOdfeld:“I the wake of the Iliad from the Duchy of Braunschweig comes the Odyssey from the Duchy of Braunschweig.” By tracing how Raabe drew on the archetypes of the heroic epic (The Iliad), the love story (The Odyssey), and the historical novel (Vergil’sAeneidWaverley
< >Heiko Ullrich, Bruchsal. |