| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Keller, Gottfried |
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(gôt´fr t) (KEY) , 1819–90, Swiss novelist, poet, and short-story writer. His vital, realistic, and purposeful fiction gives him a high place among 19th-century authors. Chief among his works is the “educational” novel, Der grüne Heinrich (1854–55; tr. Green Henry, 1960), which he later revised. It is considered one of the outstanding works of the 19th cent. A number of short stories are included in People of Seldwyla (1856–74; tr. 1929); among them is the highly regarded tale which was the basis of Delius’s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet. | 1 | | See J. M. Lindsay, Gottfried Keller: Life and Works (Am. ed. 1969). | 2 |
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