The Talking Mode of the Protagonists in Franz Grillparzer‟s “Der arme Spielmann”

Abstract

Even today the novella “Der arme Spielmann“ by Franz Grillparzer belongs to the classical canon of literature in the German language. The fate of an old violinist is artfully interwoven in a net of mythical motives, so that the reader is given a panorama, on whose background feelings and thoughts, endeavors and failures of a single human being take place