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The Novices of Sais

The Novices of Sais

With Sixty Drawings by Paul Klee

By Novalis

138 pp

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About the Book

An eclectic blend of the poetic, spiritual, and philosophical, The Novices of Sais stands as one of the most unique and beautiful writings to come out of German Romanticism. Novalis's work, published posthumously in 1801, is marked by a profound simplicity and reverence for the natural world. Equal parts prose poetry, fairy tale, and philosophical treatise, the disparate elements of Novalis's interests here meld to form something distinctly his own. In a now-rare English edition, first published in 1949, his work is accompanied by sixty drawings from the German surrealist artist Paul Klee, all of which were directly inspired by this piercing exploration of the inner life. This reprint by Angelico Press makes this remarkable work available once again.



About the Author

NOVALIS (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801) was perhaps the greatest of the poets of German Romanticism. The author of Hymns to the Night, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. As the great 20th-century theologian Karl Barth observed, “We shall only be able to speak of a true Neo-romanticism for all time when Romanticism is once again seriously taken up in the sense that Novalis understood it, and in his spirit.”

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