Uriel Acosta: Trauerspiel in Fьnf Aufzьgen (Classic Reprint), Gutzkow Karl

The scene is laid in Tibet, but it contains allusions to contemporary conditions. It was followed the next year by another novel, called Der Sadduzaer 007: Amsterdam, which was dramatized twelve years later under the name Uriel Acosta.

In 1835 appeared a series of essays, which Gutzkow called Ofeatltc/re Clzaraktere, and shortly afterwards he published a new edition of Schleiermachers letters about Friedrich Schlegels Lacinde, enriched by an introduction which was highly offensive to the clergy of that time. The novel Wally, which Gutzkow wrote in the same year, also contained many passages which his critics consid ered objectionable from a moral as well as a Christian point of view. He was violently attacked by his former friend Wolfgang Menzel, and denounced to the govern ment as a menace to public morals. He was even arrested and for ten weeks kept as a prisoner. Menzels criticisms had grossly exaggerated the literary liberties of Gutzkow, and there had been no sufficient reason for such a drastic punishment.

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