CRAMER, Carl Gottlob
Le pauvre George ou l’officier de fortune. Traduit de l’allemand de Kramer par W. A. Duval. Suivi du Voyage d’un jour de B.***
Paris, La Veuve Delvaux/Fuchs, 1801
2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo, contemporary half leather, 178 + 144 p., frontispiece; good copy, binding rubbed at edges and corners, light staining and spotting to pages (frontispiece of 1st part missing?)
Rare french translation of Der arme Görge by Carl Gottlob Cramer (1758-1817), a popular German writer of chivalry novels and forestry adviser. Cramer was the most widely read and successful author of the German wave of trivial literature at the end of the 18th century. By the 1900s his work however had largely been forgotten. Recently his work has gained a renewed interest for its possible influence on contemporary composers and writers as well as from the angle of literary sociology. Weber’s opera Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn was written after Cramer’s popular novel of the same name and certain themes in the opera’s of Wagner clearly show that the composer must have been familiar with Cramer’s work.
