Lotte in Weimar - Brossura

Mann, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520070070 ISBN 13: 9780520070073

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1990

Riassunto

Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940.Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portraita complex study of Goethe and of Lotte, the still-vivacious woman who in her youth was the model for Charlotte in Goethe's widely-readThe Sorrows of Young Werther. Lotte's thoughts, as she anticipates meeting Goethe again after forty years, and her conversations with those in Weimar who knew the great man, allow Mann to assess Goethe's genius from many points of view. Hayden White's fresh appraisal of the novel reveals its consonances with our own concerns.

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L'autore:

Hayden White is Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz and author ofThe Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, andMetahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great fiction of the twentieth century, includingBuddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, andDoctor Faustus.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0520070070
• ISBN 13: 9780520070073
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 476