Book description
✨ Rock Crystal: A Christmas Tale ✨ 14 Point Font for Eye Comfort
by Adalbert Stifter
With Reflections by Andrea Guadalupe Gonzales
Some stories only grow more radiant with time. First published in 1845, Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal (Bergkristall) has long been cherished as a quiet masterpiece of 19th-century literature.
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This novelle, which I read for the first time this year, is one of the most extraordinary pieces of writing that I have ever read.
I first tried reading Stifter in the original German while at school, and failed to understand any of it. But I hadn’t read this terrifying fairy tale, which is for adults only. The narrative uses the classic tropes of the fairy tale—two children visit relatives in the next valley, and while crossing the mountains, they are lost in the snow.
The drama of the story takes place in the shift of register when…
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