Robert: A Clerical Novel by Adolf FuchsAuthorHouse, 8 lut 2005 - 528 In the novel’s Preface, the Author states:
“In a few short words, the content of the book is this: A boy dedicates himself to the clerical profession with the fire of childlike enthusiasm, the youth goes astray in his profession, and the man, ‘because not all flowering dreams ripened,’ has the notion of giving it up and ‘fleeing to the desert.’ Yet Heaven has decided otherwise. With resignation he comes back to himself and begins again to believe in his calling. Besides this, everything which is presented in the book belongs partly to the characteristics of the hero appearing in it, partly to the characteristics of our time chiefly with regard to religious, ecclesiastical, and especially clerical matters.” |
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... town had been living in intimate contact with the hearts and the intellects of the young people there for a long number of years. The audience, for the most part consisting of the headmaster's former and later male and female students ...
... town, he together with one of his playfellows filled his pockets with stones, climbed up one of the more distant trees and hurled incessantly at the drilling troops, while at the same time he aped the officer's commands. The all too ...
... town's poets, and was moved by his father's powerful words certainly no less than the warriors themselves. His burning eye hung continuously on the speaker's features. Unceasingly he accompanied his father's changes in expression with ...
... town. Here, after he had secretly distanced himself from society, he used to seek out the remotest part of the island, and standing on the shore in melancholy rapture, he lamented his departed elders. He was in the habit of doing this ...
... town a few years before, was sitting three or four paces across from him. In fact, she sat just where he could see one of her blue eyes entirely and half see the other one — that is to say, whenever he looked in her direction. At first ...