Elective Affinities: A Novel (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Goethe, J. W. Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192837761 ISBN 13: 9780192837769

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

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Book by Goethe Johann Wolfgang von

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Reseña del editor:

In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation. The novel asks whether we have free will or not; more disturbingly, it confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of their repression of any real life in themselves. Goethe wrote Elective Affinities when he was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. He remained an uneasy and scandalous figure, none the less, and readers of Elective Affinities were profoundly disturbed by its penetrating study of marriage and passion.

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This is a new translation of a highly disturbing study of marriage and passion by Germany's greatest Romantic writer.

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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192837761
• ISBN 13: 9780192837769
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272