Caspar Hauser tells the moving and enigmatic story of a foundling in search of his origins and his own identity. In albis before the world—he lived incommunicado throughout his childhood—Caspar stands, like the noble savage, in the symbol of the pure, innocent and spiritual man, in continuous dissension with the reality that surrounds him. Between the real and the metaphorical, tenderness and infamy, Jakob Wassermann builds this intriguing and sober novel, which soon became a key reference for the romantic imagination of the time, with which he achieved one of his most perfect works.