by Carl Spitteler · e-artnow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788027311033
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«Olympischer Frühling» is the mythological epic poem by Carl Spitteler, published by e-artnow in paperback (400 pages, in German).
«Olympischer Frühling» recreates characters and plots from Greek mythology in a modern fictional universe across some twenty thousand verses. Spitteler wraps the poem in a mythical fairy-tale atmosphere and paints a sombre image of the universe, in line with his pessimistic view of existence.
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), a Swiss author, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1919. This 2018 edition brings together volumes 1 to 5 of the work, originally published between 1900 and 1905.
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.
