Alas, in the interests of me studying German ever, I'm going to have to do a block reply to all 17 (!) comments I had marked for reply in the last 2 days and say: this is all awesome, keep it coming! I'm reading avidly even when I don't reply. (Case in point: everyone in the engineering meeting 4 hours ago is comparing and contrasting local hot chicken joints, I'm on my phone learning about Gundling ;).)
Gundling's story was indeed harrowing, ouch! And objectively worse than Katte, no arguments here. (As you said, a good counterargument to the claim that aside from a little family-hitting and sentence upgrading in 1730, FW was perfectly nice and the reputation for cruelty was a misunderstanding based on the beatings, executions, bears, and wig-fire-setting. D-:) If Katte's story gives me feels, Gundling's makes me slightly queasy. Ugh, FW.
The Gundling novel sounds interesting, but between my brain's reluctance to read new fiction, the slowness of my German, and the already daunting size of my reading list, I'm not adding it to my list for now. So I'm all the more grateful to you for reading and summarizing it for us!
Please continue to feel the enthusiasm flowing through the ether even when I can't do blow by blow commentary. I will try to learn German and resume spending more time here, not just because I have a reading list but because it's starting to drive me crazy when you and felis are turning up new sources and I click on them and read a paragraph and realize I *could* read this, it would just take forever! I want to help read German sources for salon discussions too! :D
So on that note, I'm off to read some Stollberg-Rilinger. cahn, yell at me if I don't do 20 pages a day for the next week!
Re: Martin Sabrow's Gundling Biography: II
Gundling's story was indeed harrowing, ouch! And objectively worse than Katte, no arguments here. (As you said, a good counterargument to the claim that aside from a little family-hitting and sentence upgrading in 1730, FW was perfectly nice and the reputation for cruelty was a misunderstanding based on the beatings, executions, bears, and wig-fire-setting. D-:) If Katte's story gives me feels, Gundling's makes me slightly queasy. Ugh, FW.
The Gundling novel sounds interesting, but between my brain's reluctance to read new fiction, the slowness of my German, and the already daunting size of my reading list, I'm not adding it to my list for now. So I'm all the more grateful to you for reading and summarizing it for us!
Please continue to feel the enthusiasm flowing through the ether even when I can't do blow by blow commentary. I will try to learn German and resume spending more time here, not just because I have a reading list but because it's starting to drive me crazy when you and
So on that note, I'm off to read some Stollberg-Rilinger.