Goethe : life as a work of art
Safranski, Rüdiger2017
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Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. Safranski scoured Goethe's oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political turmoil of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age, is thrillingly re-created here.
Main title:
Goethe : life as a work of art / Rudiger Safranski ; translated by David Dollenmayer.
Author:
Safranski, Rüdiger, authorDollenmayer, David B., translator
Imprint:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Collation:
704 pages
Notes:
Translated from the German.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780871404909 (hbk)
Dewey class:
831.6
LC class:
PT2051
Local class:
920.1
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1933133
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