Recommend a book on Post – it
„Kabale und Liebe“ (Friedrich Schiller) aka „Luise Millerin“ or „Ravenna: or, Italian love. A tragedy, in five acts“
Why it was influential in my culture/language
It was written by Friedrich Schiller and is a drama in five acts. It was premiered 1784 and is a typical example of the „Sturm und Drang“, a literary movement of the Age of Enlightenment. Today it is one of the most influential german poems/books/theater pieces. The story is about the passionate love of bourgeois musician daughter Luise Miller and the nobility son Ferdinand von Walter, which was destroyed by intrigue (cabal).
This love was just a thing that was not possible or even thinkable at this time and Schiller was very open minded with his poem about it. He was arrested for writing this piece of literature and was not allowed to write any more books for a short amount of time.
How it compares to the Beat Generation, why or why not?
It is just the same kind of open minded work. Schiller talks about things nobody talks about.
Schiller uses a strange, really strange kind of german. I have often wondered if he was high or drunk when he wrote the book. Back in the days when I was a little school boy (12 years old) I hated to read the book, but we had too. When I think about the time I start to laugh, because I had received maybe 10 bad school notes for not doing my homework about that book 😉 and now 25 years later, I talk again about that book.
I dont know if its worthwhile to read it, Idont even know if there is a way they can translate that crazy german to english, but I think it was really influential, at least on me.
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