Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871404915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871404915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871404915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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.
The Early Life of Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752301562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752301562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Jeremy Adler
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust, Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe’s work, Adler analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Uniquely, Adler also shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in literature, science, philosophy, law, and many other fields became important for a wide range of later scientists and thinkers. Among the figures he influenced were Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns—a maker of modernity.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust, Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe’s work, Adler analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Uniquely, Adler also shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in literature, science, philosophy, law, and many other fields became important for a wide range of later scientists and thinkers. Among the figures he influenced were Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns—a maker of modernity.
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Author: James Sime
Publisher: London, Walter Scott
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: London, Walter Scott
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The life of Goethe, by H. H. Boyesen. Poems
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Goethe on Art
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039964
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039964
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Author: James Sime
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849224164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is a short yet comprehensive biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, scientist, and a major figure in the world of literature. We learn of his childhood and family background, his education and travels to Italy, his informal, and later formal, marriage to Christiane Vulpius, and the birth of his son August. In the final chapter the author presents a general view of Goethe's work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849224164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is a short yet comprehensive biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, scientist, and a major figure in the world of literature. We learn of his childhood and family background, his education and travels to Italy, his informal, and later formal, marriage to Christiane Vulpius, and the birth of his son August. In the final chapter the author presents a general view of Goethe's work.
The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226300559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226300559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Love, Life, Goethe
Author: John Armstrong
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.
Publisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.