Goethe His Faustian life
Book - 2024
"A spellbinding recreation of Goethe's life and work from one of our greatest biographers. Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany's most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe's undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing - Faust. Goethe spent over 60 years writing his retelling of Faust, a strang...e and powerful work that absorbed all the philosophical questions of his time as well as the revolutions and empires that came and went. It is his greatest work, but as Wilson explores, it is also something much more - it is the myth of how we came to be modern".--
| Location | Call Number | Status | |
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| 2nd Floor New Shelf | BIOGRAPHY/Goethe, Johann | (NEW SHELF) | Checked In |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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London:
Bloomsbury Continuum
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- vii, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781472994868
- A Note on Translations
- Timeline
- 1. These Very Serious Jokes
- 2. Turning Life Into a Picture
- 3. The Spirit of Nature - Where are you, Faust?
- 4. Some Notes on Suicide
- 5. Bildung
- 6. Weimar
- 7. Archbishop of Titipu
- 8. Italy
- 9. Vulpius
- 10. War
- 11. The Friendship With Schiller
- 12. The Parades of Death
- 13. Demons
- 14. Ottilie
- 15. Eckermann
- 16. The Myth of Weimar
- 17. Soon, Peace
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index