Front matter
Reading edition
Other works by the same author:
“The Fugitive”
“The Little Conscript”
“One of Us”
“The Tether”
“The Jugglers”
THE
SUBLIME JESTER
“Calm is my soul, and clear,
like the mountains in the morning.
But they think me cold,
and a mocker with terrible
jests.”
—Also Sprach Zarathustra
By
EZRA BRUDNO
New York
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
1924
Copyright, 1924
By
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
All Rights Reserved
Printed in U. S. A.
PART ONE: A Poet in the Making
ChapterOne:The Heritage
”Two:Hedwiga
”Three:The Judengasse
”Four:A Nightingale in a Crow’s Nest
”Five:Hilda
”Six:Eugenie
PART TWO: A Fighter in the Making
ChapterOne:The Salon
”Two:Miriam
”Three:The March to Calvary
”Four:Vagabondage
PART THREE: A Cynic in the Making
ChapterOne:A Happy Exile
”Two:Marguerite
”Three:The Jest of the Gods
AUTHOR’S NOTE.
In creating Albert Zorn, the central figure in this romance, I have followed the life and career of Heinrich Heine. I have chosen him not only because he singularly typifies the poet with the “Weltschmerz” in his heart, nor because his was an arresting personality, but because he is preeminently the symbol of the spirit of his age and his people—the symbol of the spirit of all ages and all peoples. For, whenever and wherever a Samson arises, the smug, hypocritical, pharasaical Philistines are ever ready to fetter him and put out his eyes—and often there is a Delilah to betray him.
E. B.
PART ONE
A POET IN THE MAKING