The First War in Hans Herbert Grimm's picaresque novel Schlump
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First World War, picaresque novel, Book BurningAbstract
Schlump (1928) narrates the adventures of a soldier during the First World War. Despite its massive divulgation, Schlump had a poor reception at its time. In the year 1933, the work was forbiddenand burned by the Nazis. After decades of oblivion, in 2008, the literary reviewer Volker Weidermann published a book about the Book Burning, which started a process of recuperation of the work, giving it a new chance, as it was published for the second time in the 100th anniversary of the First World War. The reception to Schlump was very positive and showed a clear desire of the critics to compensate for what happened during the Nazi regime. A careful lecture of the book, however, reveals an attitude that tends to being more frivolous than pacifist, and a narrative that is unable to deliver the critical look thatwas promised by its recent positive reviews, as it will be presented in this article.
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