Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen one of the
earliest novelists in the German language - charts the adventures of its hero Simplicius
through the horrors of battle murder fire and famine offering an invaluable eyewitness
account of the Thirty Years' War and showing how humanity can in the end triumph over
brutality A work of great poetical beauty and satirical strength and a lasting historical
document of timeless value Simplicius Simplicissimus is one of the greatest picaresque novels
in the Western canon.
