Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ€™ Choice Selection
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews
This â€œsplendid biographyâ€ (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 (1749â€“1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, andâ€•as RÃ¼diger Safranksi emphasizesâ€•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 Goetheâ€™s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a â€œfresh and authenticâ€ (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending â€œartistic analysis with swift, sharp renderingsâ€ of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, â€œ[Safranskiâ€™s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envyâ€ of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goetheâ€™s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Country USA
Brand LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 50990554
ReleaseDate 2018-12-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781631494895

Country	USA
Brand	LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer	Liveright
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	50990554
ReleaseDate	2018-12-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781631494895

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

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