VITA DI MARIA WUZ | I EDIZ. 1988 | JEAN PAUL

Jean Paul’s Vita di Maria Wuz (Italian edition, 1988, TEA) presents one of the author’s most intimate and idiosyncratic works. The text, originally known as Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz in Auenthal (1793), blends satirical humor, sentimental reflection, and philosophical irony. Through the figure of the modest schoolmaster Wuz, Jean Paul explores themes of solitude, imagination, and the quiet dignity of ordinary life, offering a counterpoint to grand heroic narratives of the age. Written in a playful yet meditative style, the work exemplifies Jean Paul’s distinctive voice in German Romanticism, where the fantastic and the mundane coexist in harmony.