Demokrit an den Leser
Robert Burton · Bernhard Trebuch
In 1621 an Oxford scholar who called himself «Democritus Junior» published the strangest book ever written about melancholy: Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Its long preface, «Democritus Junior to the Reader», is a satire on a world gone mad – scholars, lawyers, princes, lovers and the author himself – ending in Burton’s own Utopia. Here it is for the first time complete in German, translated from the first edition of 1621 by Bernhard Trebuch, with a foreword for readers new to Burton and notes on the persons, places, books and terms. Reading sample: the foreword and the first two sections of the preface, with the notes.
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