The Two Captains: A German Romance of Honor
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Two young captains at Malaga, the German Heimbert and the Spaniard Fadrique, sworn brothers in arms, are drawn into war and into love, and the friendship is the real subject — a short German romance about honor, and about the point at which honor stops being a virtue. Fouqué was a Prussian cavalry officer of Huguenot descent who fought Napoleon and wrote Undine, German Romanticism's most enduring fairy tale. This is the same sensibility, condensed. Fifty-three plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus and others turn the German Romantic landscape of fire, snow and moonlit shore into a visual counterpart to Fouqué's tale of honor tested.
Two young captains at Malaga, the German Heimbert and the Spaniard Fadrique, sworn brothers in arms, are drawn into war and into love, and the friendship is the real subject — a short German romance about honor, and about the point at which honor stops being a virtue. Fouqué was a Prussian cavalr...
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843) was a German writer of the Romantic era. A former Prussian officer, he published from Berlin, producing the novella Undine (1811) and the novel The Two Captains.
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843) was a German writer of the Romantic era. A former Prussian officer, he published from Berlin, producing the novella Undine (1811) and the novel The Two Captains.
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