Mixed Thoughts about Switzerland

Download or read book Mixed Thoughts about Switzerland written by Gottfried Keller and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation into American English of Gottfried Keller's handwritten article "Mixed Thoughts about Switzerland". Keller wrote this article in Munich for a handwritten pub newspaper in 1841, before he turned to poetry. He was studying in Munich at the time, and had joined a Swiss student fraternity and met with them once a week at the "Wagnerbräu" pub for a pub crawl, during which he read a weekly paper that he was both the main contributor to and editor of. The only pieces of this that survived were those that he kept in one of his study books. This is the only full article that survived. Here he dialogues about the nation as an expression of political self-determination and will-formation - not as a power structure defined in terms of a nation.