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  • Jakob Wassermann
    Jakob Wassermann

    He established his reputation with Caspar Hauser (1908), the fact-based story of a strange boy, apparently unfamiliar with the ordinary world, who was found in Nürnberg in 1828 and whose identity and subsequent murder or suicide remained a mystery. Wassermann uses the story to castigate bourgeois numbness of heart and…

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    He established his reputation with Caspar Hauser (1908), the fact-based story of a strange boy, apparently unfamiliar with the ordinary world, who was found in Nürnberg in 1828 and whose identity and subsequent murder or suicide remained a mystery. Wassermann uses the story to castigate bourgeois numbness of heart and…

    Read More