At one point, the main figure in this work concocts a plan to drop in through the chimney of a church at night to steal the parson's bacon – when he's caught, he pretends to be the Devil and frightens the priest and his cook, then runs away – to make amends, he later sends a sapphire in a gold ring.
At one point, the main figure in this work concocts a plan to drop in through the chimney of a church at night to steal the parson's bacon – when he's caught, he pretends to be the Devil and frightens the priest and his cook, then runs away – to make amends, he later sends a sapphire in a gold ring. He becomes a famous actor in France under the name "Beaus Alman" while serving under Monsieur Canard; this occurs after his time known as the "Huntsman of Soest," and many sections concern his friendship with Ulrich Herzbruder. Despite his fame, he opts to leave the world "of his own free will" and go back to being a hermit on a farm near Spessart, from which he'd been taken by soldiers as a 12-year old boy. His tale inspired a namesake satirical magazine started by Albert Langen in 1896 and an opera by Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Partly subtitled as the "life of a strange adventurer named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim," FTP, name ► this 1668 picaresque novel, the most famous work by Hans von Grimmelshausen.
At one point, the main figure in this work concocts a plan to drop in through the chimney of a church at night to steal the parson's bacon – when he's caught, he pretends to be the Devil and frightens the priest and his cook, then runs away – to make amends, he later sends a sapphire in a gold ring.
{Simplicissimus} (Der abenteuerliche Simplicissiumus Teutsch or Simplicius Simplicissimus or The Adventures of a Simpleton or Simplicissimus the Vagabond)