The Value of Literature
The Discard of Society in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft
Wilhelm Raabe’s 1884 novel Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft (Pfister’s Mill: A Summer Vacation’s Notebook) is a work that depicts a society in a state of exceptional and rapid change. The sentiment that Ebert Pfister, the story’s narrator, expresses above captures what…