This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German
novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book
offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the 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. Alongside these works
the incidents of his life are analysed, including his love affairs
and his meetings with the great people of the age, such as Napoleon
Bonaparte. Jeremy Adler shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest
in many fields influenced later thinkers such as Charles Darwin 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.
General
Imprint: |
Reaktion Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Critical Lives |
Release date: |
February 2020 |
Authors: |
Jeremy Adler
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Dimensions: |
200 x 130 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78914-198-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-78914-198-2 |
Barcode: |
9781789141986 |
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