Ardinghello und die glücklichen Inseln
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I find it therefore necessary to assume the existence in Nature of masculine and feminine elements. That man is nearest perfection who is composed entirely of masculine elements, and that woman perhaps is nearest perfection who contains only so many feminine elements as to be able to remain woman ; whilst that man is the worst who contains only so many masculine elements as to qualify for the title of man."--Ardinghello und die glücklichen Inseln (1787) by Wilhelm Heinse |
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Ardinghello und die glücklichen Inseln (1787) is a novel by German author Wilhelm Heinse. It is his best-known work and forms the framework for the exposition of his views on art and life, the plot being laid in the Italy of the 16th century. This and his other novels Laidion, oder die eleusinischen Geheimnisse (1774) and Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796) combine the frank voluptuousness of Wieland with the enthusiasm of the "Sturm und Drang."
According to Friedrich Brie's Exotismus der Sinne. Eine Studie zur Psychologie der Romantik (1920) the novel is the only German novel with an outspoken strain of exotism.