Goethe: Life As a Work of Art

Safranski, Rüdiger

ISBN 10: 0871404907 / ISBN 13: 9780871404909

Verlag: Liverlight Publishing Corporation, 2017

First Edition (New York and London, 2017). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. Unclipped dust jacket. Near fine, with no tears or conspicuous damage, SAVE FOR some light shelf wear to the spine head. Paper boards, quarter burgundy with green sides, bright gilt titling to the spine, and with a gilt publisher's logo to the front. A light press to the spine ends, gentle bump to the front bottom corner (also to the front bottom edge), else clean and essentially fine. Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer. xxvi, 651pp. (Please Note: this the first impression of the 2017 US First Edition; 'Goethe: Kunstwerk des Lebens: Biographie' was first published in Germany in 2013. Also: a heavy book; international orders will likely result in a request for additional fees.). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5710

Inhaltsangabe:

Goethe (1749 - 1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and, as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasises, a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but also the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethes entire oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as Goethes 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 turmoil of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age, is thrillingly re-created in this monumental biography. As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethes greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and writer, and the author of biographies of Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. He lives in Berlin.

David Dollenmayer lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and translates German fiction and nonfiction.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Goethe: Life As a Work of Art
Verlag: Liverlight Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: First Edition.