Jean Paul

Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, dit Jean Paul · German Romantic writer (1763-1825) · 1763–1825

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Dominique Pagani sees Jean Paul as the great novelist of early German Romanticism. Widely read in Hegel's time, he is forgotten today. He notes that Jean Paul talks with his reader and made the dream a literary genre a generation before Nerval1 2. He often returns to an episode in Siebenkäs: after a few minutes' walk, the hero finds himself on foreign soil, which shows how fragmented Germany was3 4. In a session on Schumann, he gives a close reading of the dawn departure in Siebenkäs. He points out bodily sensations, notations he calls cinematic before the fact, the crescendo of the sunrise and the shift from panorama to miniature. He also comments on "Walt's Dream" in the Flegeljahre, where every turn is driven by sound events5. He stresses Jean Paul's humour. The humour of the Walt-Vult double might explain why he died neither mad nor by suicide. He also considers him the most likely author of the Nightwatches.

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Jean Paul (German: ; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.

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Series · 15 Jan 2021Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata

9:17Flegeljahre (The Awkward Age)Summit of the prose of early German romanticism, he integrates the dream as a literary genre a generation before Nerval.
12:28The humor of the Walt-Vult double perhaps explains why he died neither mad nor by suicide.
20:21Flegeljahre (The Awkward Age)Commented reading of "Walt's Dream," all of whose articulations are governed by sonic events.
35:31Whose real name was Richter, he takes the name Jean-Paul in homage to Rousseau and remains one of the few German romantics to use humor.

Season 5.2 · 2 May 2019#5.6 Nature or Landscape?

32:10Passage listed.
36:39The novelist most read in Hegel's time and forgotten today; he converses with his reader and made dream a literary genre.
43:25SiebenkäsThe departure at dawn: bodily sensations and cinematic notations avant la lettre.
46:45SiebenkäsCrescendo of the sunrise and hymn to spring; shift from panorama to miniature.
55:03SiebenkäsThe ranz des vaches awakens the hero's childhood, which speaks to him: the emotion breaks the joyful march.
1:19:53SiebenkäsThe farm landscape is a managed nature, full of humor.