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Obermann

This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ignored by the reading public when it was first published during the period of Napoleonic Wars in 1804, it was rediscovered almost 30 years later by the Romantics, praised by none less than Balzac and George Sand, as well as Franz Liszt and other illustrious persons of that time period. Obermann is an epistolary novel in the form of a journal intime, in which the inner life of the main character is the most important element, rather than the physical action. The story spans ten years, in which Obermann describes historical events, the progress of philosophical ideas, and, most strikingly, his emotional development. A.E. Waite succeeds to translate this work in a fittingly poetic way, transporting haunting images of loneliness, nausée, and lack of orientation. - Summary by Carolin (17 hr 35 min)

Chapters

Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 1

Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 2

Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 3

Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 4

Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 5

Prefatory Observations by the Author

First Year, Letters I and II

First Year, Letters III and IV

First Year, Letters V and VI

First Year, Letters VII and VIII

First Year, Letter IX and Second Year, Letter X

Second Year, Letters XI and XII

Second Year, Letters XIII and XIV

Second Year, Letters XV, XVI and XVII

Second Year, Letters XVIII, XIX and XX

Second Year, Letters XXI and XXII

Second Year, Letters XXIII, XXIV and XXV

Third Year, Letters XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII

Third Year, Letters XXIX, XXX and XXXI

Third Year, Letters XXXII and XXXIII

Third Year, Letters XXXIV and XXXV

Fifth Year, the First Fragment

Sixth Year, the Second Fragment

Sixth Year, Letters XXXVI and XXXVII

Sixth Year, Letter XXXVIII

Sixth Year, the Third Fragment

Sixth Year, Letters XXXIX and XL

Sixth Year, Letter XLI

Sixth Year, Letters XLII and XLIII

Sixth Year, Letter XLIV

Sixth Year, Letter XLV

Sixth Year, Letter XLVI

Sixth Year, Letter XLVII

Sixth Year, Letters XLVIII and XLIX

Seventh Year, Letter L

Seventh Year, Letter LI

Seventh Year, Letter LII

Eighth Year, Letters LIII, LIV, LV and LVI

Eighth Year, Letters LVII, LVIII and LIX

Eighth Year, Letters LX and LXI

Eighth Year, Letters LXII and LXIII

Eighth Year, Letter LXIV

Eighth Year, Letter LXV

Eighth Year, Letters LXVI and LXVII

Eighth Year, Letter LXVIII

Eighth Year, Letters LXIX and LXX

Eighth Year, Letters LXXI and LXXII

Eighth Year, Letter LXXIII and Ninth Year, Letters LXXIV and LXXV

Ninth Year, Letters LXXVI and LXXVII

Ninth Year, Letters LXXVIII and LXXIX

Ninth Year, Letters LXXX and LXXXI

Ninth Year, Letters LXXXII, LXXXIII and LXXXIV

Ninth Year, Letters LXXXV and LXXXVI

Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVII

Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVIII

Ninth Year, Letter LXXXIX

Supplement - Tenth Year, Letter XC

Supplement - Letter XCI, Without Known Date