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This interpretation combines literary criticism with a reference guide to Bonaventura's extratextual sources, viewing the "Nachtwachen" as a menippea—a satirical subgenre exploring the gap between ideals and realities in the quest for ultimate truth. The text's seemingly random array of names, hints, and allusions has been decoded to reveal the comprehensive backdrop against which the anonymous author challenges traditional knowledge and wisdom, alongside personal experiences and views. Proper names serve as authorial indicators in a narrative where time, place, and action remain deliberately vague. Once the jumbled sequence is unraveled, the text emerges as a compendium of eighteenth-century culture and intellectual experience, reflecting life's inherent confusion. Oxymeronic combinations and abrupt shifts in mood further underscore the complexities of human existence, characteristic of the menippea, which refrains from providing direct answers. Instead, deeper meaning arises when all references converge, revealing coherence beneath the discord. The menippea's role is to pose questions, challenge accepted beliefs, and encourage independent thought and new approaches to enduring issues. In the "Nachtwachen," these aims are pursued with remarkable erudition and intellectual curiosity, testing the boundaries of human understanding through the integration of literature, art, science, and philosophy, showcasing an author of except
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A guide to Bonaventura's Nightwatches, Linde Katritzky
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- 1999
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