Green Henry

About “Green Henry”

Green Henry is a partially autobiographical novel by Swiss author Gottfried Keller, first published in 1855 and later revised in 1879. The story blends truth and fiction to explore the psychological challenges of a generation transitioning from romanticism to realism. It is considered a Bildungsroman, a novel of self-development, and is grouped with Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe and Der Nachsommer by Stifter as a key example of the genre. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)