Die Seele Ist Unter Allen Giften Das Stärckste: Karl-Heinz Otts Roman “Endlich Stille“
The Soul is The Most Effective Among The Poisons: Karl-Heinz Otts’s Novel Named as “Endlich Stille”

Summary/Abstract: Novalis who is the most important author of German Romance said that the soul is the most effective among poisons. The soul is not poisonous from the beginning. It is the human who makes the soul poisonous or the most poisonous. This may be connected with some reasons such as extreme perfectionism, excessive conscience, obsession, incurable or fatal physical diseases. The phonemenon which poisoned the soul of main figure of the novel named as “Endlich Stille” of contemporary German author Karl-Heinz Otto is also at a loss for word “No” which caused the death of a human consciously. Besides, he bases his action on Spinoza’s saying “whoever maintains a virtuous life instead of committing crime although he knows it to be the way to happiness is a fool” and it denotes to what extent he poisoned himself.

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