![]() ![]() ![]() Told through multiple points of view, the novel mixes such historical figures as Elizabeth, exiled Winter Queen of Bohemia, with folkloric characters including a talking donkey named Origenes. A precocious kid with an obsession for tightrope walking, he becomes a prankish entertainer and provocateur who can transfix crowds with his act and create chaos. After his Lutheran father, Claus, a miller, is hanged by the fanatical Jesuit inquisitor Oswald Tesimond for possessing books on black magic, Tyll escapes his village with his sister, Nele. And the boy protagonist's name is now spelled Tyll Ulenspiegel. The story is now set during the Thirty Years' War, 300 years after the time of the original story. ![]() One of Germany's most celebrated young novelists updates and transforms the 16th-century classic Till Eulenspiegel. ![]()
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