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    Bergkristall: Erzählung (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)

    By Adalbert Stifter

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    Stifter formulierte in der Vorrede zu seiner Erzählungssammlung "Bunte Steine", zu der auch "Bergkristall" gehört, jenes berühmte "sanfte Gesetz", einen ontologischen Entwurf, der nicht im Einseitigen, Sensationellen, sondern im Allgemeinen und Gesetzlichen, im Gleichmäßigen und Stetigen das Natur- und Menschenerhaltende sieht. "Bergkristall" ist wohl die vollkommenste Einlösung der Forderungen dieses "sanften Gesetzes", das gerade dem Unscheinbaren und Kleinen Bedeutung und Würde zuspricht.

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    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherReclam Verlag
    Release dateMay 11, 2016
    ISBN9783159610344
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    Bergkristall: Erzählung (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)
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    Adalbert Stifter

    Adalbert Stifter (Oberplan, 1805 - Linz, 1868). Escritor austríaco perteneciente al movimiento Biedermeier. Estudió en la Universidad de Viena y fue profesor e inspector de las escuelas de Linz. A pesar de los puestos que desempeñó, su vida estuvo llena de dificultades, contrastando con sus ideales de belleza, de armonía, de perfección moral y estética. El autor que mayor influencia ejerció sobre Stifter fue el escritor alemán Jean Paul. En su obra literaria destacan de un modo especial los relatos breves, agrupados casi todos en seis volúmenes con el título de Estudios. Las narraciones tempranas de Adalbert Stifter estaban impregnadas de un pesimismo básico; los seres humanos están expuestos a un destino arbitrario, casi demoníaco (por ejemplo, en El monte alto y en Abdías). Lo que preparan y planifican racionalmente se desarrolla de forma contraria y se convierte en fatal. Sin embargo, la obra tardía del escritor austríaco destaca por su armonía interna y externa. Piedras de colores y El veranillo de San Martín son sus obras más representativas.

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    • 4/5
      Lovely little wintry fable, very spare and European. An afternoon's read, even better if there's a snowstorm outside.
    • 4/5
      A very good, very sweet novella. It is well translated, absent of unnecessary words, but still incredibly vivid.
    • 5/5
      a nice christmas storry
    • 5/5
      This unassuming novella strikes a deep chord. One never does know precisely what two children lost in an alpine snowstorm encounter, but the beauty of the telling of their tale is striking; the vision lingers.The unreckonable mountain is as much a focus of the story as are the characters--it is actually by far the most delineated, the most detailed sketch. The power of this simple story lies perhaps in its lingering descent from the mountain peaks into two small towns in neighboring valleys, and only then into the lives of some of their inhabitants--a godlike view, if you will, that serves to hold the fate of two small and unformed beings against the weight and longevity of a glacial age, somehow for a moment balancing the two.I'll echo others in this: you'll be glad if you skip Auden's rather perfunctory introduction, or go back to it only after you've read the story.
    • 4/5
      Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a simple story almost a parable or a fairytale except that he spends so much time detailing the life and culture of the mountains. Stifter saves the story through is appreciation of the combined beauty and danger of nature (as expressed in the snow storm and the mountain pass). The moutain and the storm almost become characters in the story.I was also intrigued by the tension between the Catholicism of the villagers and a sense of the divine being dwarfed by nature and nature itself as the threat against human existence which seems more akin to the sense of nature in early Nordic sagas.I don't want to read too much into it since is is essentially a simple tale, but I liked it more than I anticipated. My only complaint is that one should wait to read the introduction by Auden until after reading the story since he gives the plot of the story almost immediately and it ruined the sense of discovery I might have otherwise felt about the story.
    • 3/5
      Beautifully translated, perfectly formed novella. Stifter is the "landscape painter" of German realist novelists, and this little novel begins with a liesurely tour of a mountain range, so that as readers we know our way around. Then two little children get lost in the mountains. It's not meant to be melodramatic: it's the opposite: a potentially maudlin story told with absolute calm and with fastidious and accurate attention to the Alpine landscape. Beautiful and serene.W.H. Auden makes all these points in his intentionally simple introduction. Stifter means to make a Christian parable, but it is not a parable of redemption. It is about harmony: harmony of people with themselves, with eachother, with the landscape. People and mountains are largely silent. A person's regard of another shows how much they understand of that other: the boy of his devoted sister, both the boy and the girl of the mountain.The pace and the purpose of the story couldn't be farther from the frenetic & hysterical inventions of our current novelists (thinking of McCarthy, Galchen, Baker, et al.).it is a wonderful tonic. I would read it as a tonic, a reminder of the fact that the frantic need to invent clevernesses in every line, which has come to seem like nothing other than good writing, is a form of obliviousness to other meanings.
    • 5/5
      Rock Crystal tells a simple story: two children, crossing a mountain range, become lost in the snow and are forced to spend a harrowing evening stranded on a glacier. The prose, beautifully translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore, is a marvel of compression and economy. Not a single word seems either out of place or extraneous. The structure of the story--best described, perhaps, as a novella--is as precise as a geometric pattern.As for deeper meaning, it is difficult to fully assess the totality of the work without giving away the ending (a sin blithely committed by W.H. Auden in his thoroughly mediocre introduction--DO NOT READ IT UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK!). Suffice it to say, it is a Christmas story as well as a fable. And, it is a story about the nature of community--the process by which outsiders become part of the whole. As is quickly evident from the many literati who have lavishly praised this book, there is a great deal moving under the surface of this relatively linear narrative.Above all, this is a remarkably written book that has the power to move you. A wonderful Christmas read.
    • 4/5
      Rock Crystal is a simple story, short and perfectly written, about children lost in a snow storm.
    • 2/5
      This was all landscape and texture; perhaps Stifter's other work—like the out of print Indian Summer, which I've often heard cited as one of the best in the genre of the German bildungsroman—is worth exploring. Rock Crystal was interesting in how the village and its boundaries are sketched, but it was too extended and repetitious in its allegories.