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Dedication


To the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inventors and

practitioners of the episodic picaresque novel,

especially


Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621-1676)

author of


The Adventurous Simplicius Simplicissimus:

The account of the life of an odd vagrant named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim:

namely where and in what manner he came into this world, what he saw, learned,

experienced, and endured therein; also why he again left it of his own free will.




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