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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Release : 1980-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Goethe on Art written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 1980-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Release : 2017-05-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by : Rüdiger Safranski
Download or read book Goethe: Life as a Work of Art written by Rüdiger Safranski. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Katharina Mommsen
Release : 2003
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 393/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Goethe's Art of Living by : Katharina Mommsen
Download or read book Goethe's Art of Living written by Katharina Mommsen. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goethe researcher Katharine Mommsen draws the reader into the fascinating life of Germany's greatest literary genius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). We discover how ordinary items such as the food we eat or the beverages we drink, and everyday activities like hiking, ice-skating, horseback riding, dancing the waltz, and music-making acquire fresh meaning within Goethe's own pantheistic life philosophy. He directed his wisdom toward keeping body and soul healthy, lively, focused, and strong as a basis for a fuller life - for him it became an essential part of the poet's worldly gospel. This book which is composed around hundreds of excerpts from Goethe's works, correspondences and conversations transcends biography, and shows us the poet's art of living in its richness in wit and wisdom, goodness, and love for humanity.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Release : 1994-07-25
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Essays on Art and Literature by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book Essays on Art and Literature written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 1994-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains such essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon" and "Shakespeare: a Tribute."
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Release : 1853
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Book Synopsis Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This book was released on 1853. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
