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The Ghost-Seer
The Ghost-Seer - From the papers of the Count of O** though a deeper exploration of Immanuel Kant was to
follow later. Due to the novel’s slow formation and the
Author(s) Friedrich Schiller author’s antipathy to it, it was not planned from start to
Country Germany finish and its style and structure is not uniform through-
out, ranging from rhetorical prose, to theatrical prose, to
Language German
dialogues reminiscent of Don Carlos, to the popular ele-
Publication date 1787 to 1789 ments of Gothic fiction.
It is thought that Johann Georg Schröpfer is the inspi-
The Ghost-Seer (full title: Der Geisterseher - Aus den ration for the novel.
Papieren des Grafen von O** - literally, The Ghost-Seer - From
the papers of the Count of O**); or the Apparitionist is an
unfinished novel by Friedrich Schiller. It first appeared
in several instalments from 1787 to 1789 in the journal
Thalia, later appearing as a three-volume book in its own
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right. Although it remained unfinished, its audiences • The Ghost-Seer at Project Gutenberg
were the largest for any of Schiller’s work during his life-
time. The readership was attracted by its elements typi-
cal of its time, such as necromancy, spiritualism and con-
spiracies.
Structurally and stylistically it is not a single story,
but tells of a Jesuit secret society trying to convert a
Protestant German prince to Catholicism and bring him
to the throne back home in order to bolster its own pow-
er base. Writing of the Prince’s fate, Schiller shows him
as the key to the conflict between passion and morality,
passion and duty. The work’s passages on religious and
historical philosophy show Schiller’s Enlightenment
ideals, with his critique of religion and society to the fore,
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