num_pages: 208
description: Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he finds around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades into crushing hopelessness. He finds peace again only when he cares for Boppi, an invalid who renews Camenzind’s love for humanity and inspires him once again to find joy in the smallest details of everyday life.
language: English
title: Peter Camenzind
titlecomplete: Peter Camenzind
characters: Peter Camenzind, Erminia Aglietti, Konrad Camenzind, Mr. Camenzind Senior, Elizabeth, Boppi, Annunziata Nardini, Richard, Rösi Girtanner
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7334
places: Zurich, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, Milan, Lombardy, Paris, Basel, Nimikon, Assisi, Umbria
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux