Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790): 001 - Brossura

Boyle, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0192829815 ISBN 13: 9780192829818

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Riassunto

The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in the cabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been `not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality of his art lay in his complex distance from his times.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

the best biography of Goethe in English (George Steiner, New Yorker)

L'autore:

Nicholas Boyle is University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. A Goethe specialist, Boyle has written extensively on German and French literature and philosophy.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0192829815
• ISBN 13: 9780192829818
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 844