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Obermann

Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770 - 1846)
Translated by Arthur Edward Waite (1857 - 1942)

This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ignored by the reading public when it was first published during the period of Napoleonic Wars in 1804, it was rediscovered almost 30 years later by the Romantics, praised by none less than Balzac and George Sand, as well as Franz Liszt and other illustrious persons of that time period.

Obermann is an epistolary novel in the form of a journal intime, in which the inner life of the main character is the most important element, rather than the physical action. The story spans ten years, in which Obermann describes historical events, the progress of philosophical ideas, and, most strikingly, his emotional development.

A.E. Waite succeeds to translate this work in a fittingly poetic way, transporting haunting images of loneliness, nausée, and lack of orientation. - Summary by Carolin

Genre(s): Epistolary Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 1	Jim Locke	00:23:07
Play 02	Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 2	Jim Locke	00:31:23
Play 03	Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 3	Jim Locke	00:30:23
Play 04	Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 4	Jim Locke	00:30:57
Play 05	Biographical and Critical Introduction by A.E. Waite, part 5	Jim Locke	00:34:46
Play 06	Prefatory Observations by the Author	Jim Locke	00:08:47
Play 07	First Year, Letters I and II	Jim Locke	00:25:55
Play 08	First Year, Letters III and IV	Jim Locke	00:36:10
Play 09	First Year, Letters V and VI	Jim Locke	00:19:07
Play 10	First Year, Letters VII and VIII	Jim Locke	00:19:19
Play 11	First Year, Letter IX and Second Year, Letter X	Jim Locke	00:09:00
Play 12	Second Year, Letters XI and XII	Jim Locke	00:21:26
Play 13	Second Year, Letters XIII and XIV	Jim Locke	00:09:31
Play 14	Second Year, Letters XV, XVI and XVII	Jim Locke	00:05:14
Play 15	Second Year, Letters XVIII, XIX and XX	Jim Locke	00:12:41
Play 16	Second Year, Letters XXI and XXII	Jim Locke	00:24:53
Play 17	Second Year, Letters XXIII, XXIV and XXV	Jim Locke	00:08:42
Play 18	Third Year, Letters XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII	Jim Locke	00:07:02
Play 19	Third Year, Letters XXIX, XXX and XXXI	Jim Locke	00:12:09
Play 20	Third Year, Letters XXXII and XXXIII	Jim Locke	00:10:02
Play 21	Third Year, Letters XXXIV and XXXV	Jim Locke	00:12:21
Play 22	Fifth Year, the First Fragment	Jim Locke	00:14:00
Play 23	Sixth Year, the Second Fragment	Jim Locke	00:08:14
Play 24	Sixth Year, Letters XXXVI and XXXVII	Jim Locke	00:14:42
Play 25	Sixth Year, Letter XXXVIII	Jim Locke	00:09:46
Play 26	Sixth Year, the Third Fragment	jftocanada	00:10:31
Play 27	Sixth Year, Letters XXXIX and XL	Jim Locke	00:12:28
Play 28	Sixth Year, Letter XLI	Jim Locke	00:32:08
Play 29	Sixth Year, Letters XLII and XLIII	Jim Locke	00:24:27
Play 30	Sixth Year, Letter XLIV	Jim Locke	00:28:30
Play 31	Sixth Year, Letter XLV	Jim Locke	00:14:20
Play 32	Sixth Year, Letter XLVI	Jim Locke	00:26:08
Play 33	Sixth Year, Letter XLVII	Jim Locke	00:23:45
Play 34	Sixth Year, Letters XLVIII and XLIX	Jim Locke	00:19:19
Play 35	Seventh Year, Letter L	Jim Locke	00:25:27
Play 36	Seventh Year, Letter LI	Jim Locke	00:11:04
Play 37	Seventh Year, Letter LII	Jim Locke	00:15:00
Play 38	Eighth Year, Letters LIII, LIV, LV and LVI	jftocanada	00:08:35
Play 39	Eighth Year, Letters LVII, LVIII and LIX	Jim Locke	00:15:48
Play 40	Eighth Year, Letters LX and LXI	Jim Locke	00:15:20
Play 41	Eighth Year, Letters LXII and LXIII	Jim Locke	00:34:12
Play 42	Eighth Year, Letter LXIV	Jim Locke	00:25:07
Play 43	Eighth Year, Letter LXV	Jim Locke	00:19:24
Play 44	Eighth Year, Letters LXVI and LXVII	Jim Locke	00:11:04
Play 45	Eighth Year, Letter LXVIII	Jim Locke	00:17:50
Play 46	Eighth Year, Letters LXIX and LXX	Jim Locke	00:12:06
Play 47	Eighth Year, Letters LXXI and LXXII	Jim Locke	00:15:47
Play 48	Eighth Year, Letter LXXIII and Ninth Year, Letters LXXIV and LXXV	Jim Locke	00:13:07
Play 49	Ninth Year, Letters LXXVI and LXXVII	jftocanada	00:12:50
Play 50	Ninth Year, Letters LXXVIII and LXXIX	Jim Locke	00:20:11
Play 51	Ninth Year, Letters LXXX and LXXXI	Jim Locke	00:27:23
Play 52	Ninth Year, Letters LXXXII, LXXXIII and LXXXIV	Jim Locke	00:17:30
Play 53	Ninth Year, Letters LXXXV and LXXXVI	Jim Locke	00:26:41
Play 54	Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVII	Jim Locke	00:14:55
Play 55	Ninth Year, Letter LXXXVIII	Jim Locke	00:11:15
Play 56	Ninth Year, Letter LXXXIX	Jim Locke	00:17:23
Play 57	Supplement - Tenth Year, Letter XC	Jim Locke	00:19:31
Play 58	Supplement - Letter XCI, Without Known Date	Jim Locke	00:16:34

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