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Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

By Rudiger Safranski

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About the book

Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski scoured Goethe's oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political ...Show more

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9781631494895

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Published year

2018

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1

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Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

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Paperback

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