The Essential Goethe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Goethe write by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 2018-06-12. The Essential Goethe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goethe: Life as a Work of Art write by Rüdiger Safranski. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Elective Affinities
Elective Affinities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elective Affinities write by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 1872. Elective Affinities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
West-Eastern Divan
West-Eastern Divan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West-Eastern Divan write by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 2019-10-15. West-Eastern Divan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe write by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 2000-05-30. Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence. Includes his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems. The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author's old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the effect of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner. Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer.
