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A Dissertation on Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus

The first book I published was my dissertation: "Das Fortwirken des Simplicissimus von Grimmelshausen in der deutschen Literatur". It translates to something like "The influence of Simplicissimus by Grimmelshausen on German literature." Simplicissimus was and is one of my favorite novels, but if you work on it for years, it drains quite a bit of the passion out of you. Here is an abstract, which I won't translate, because I'm too lazy and if you don't know any German you won't be able to read the book anyway.

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Der Simplicissimus von Grimmelshausen gehört heute zu den bekanntesten Werken des Barock. Das liegt nicht nur an der Begeisterung für den Orginaltext, sondern auch an den vielfachen Adaptionen und der kreativen Rezeption des Werkes in der deutschen Literatur. Der Einfluss des simplicianischen Werks von Grimmelshausen ist bisher nur in Teilbereichen erforscht worden. Die Autorin bietet in ihrem Werk deshalb eine umfassende Darstellung der produktiven Rezeption, die bereits in der Literaturwissenschaft Geleistetes zusammenträgt und prüft, um schließlich die fehlenden Mosaiksteine zu ergänzen und ein Gesamtbild zu erstellen.
Edith Parzefall
ISBN 3-89722-638-3
Logos Verlag, Berlin 2001
443 Seiten, Preis: 40.50 Eur

Technical Documentation: SuSE Linux

The next topic I was writing about was SUSE Linux. Again for many years, but the beast kept changing its face continuously so there was always enough to write about.

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When I started at SUSE, there was only one 300 page manual and one person working full-time on it. Over the years, the one manual became three and four, then two (please don't ask me why) and the total volume was more than one thousand pages written and maintained by seven writers. We create manuals in all kinds of flavors for different products or architectures.
The current offer of SUSE Linux Documentation can be found here. And the latest version of SUSE Linux can be downloaded for free at www.openSUSE.org. But you might still want to buy the boxed product with a printed manual and the DVD media. :-)