Grillparzer
Americannoun
noun
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“The way of modern culture,” the Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer once lamented, “leads from humanity through nationality to bestiality.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2015
Zoe was worried when Richard murmured, "So all my life is blank pages," but they went on to the Grillparzer on schedule.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new 401-page book grew out of The Pension Grillparzer, the short story that Irving folded into the heart of Garp.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is also the subject of a ballad by Schiller and a drama by F. Grillparzer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Indeed, there was hardly more than one man, even in Vienna, who exerted a strong personal influence upon Grillparzer, and this was Josef Schreyvogel, journalist, critic, playwright, from 1814 to 1831 secretary of the Burgtheater.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
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