Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wilhelm goes through deep self-realisation and decides to escape his empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society. A coming-of-age tale, a story of education and disillusionment, a novel of ideas ranging across literature, philosophy and politics, a masterpiece that resists all pigeonholing.
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Con frac azul y chaleco amarillo, muchos jóvenes en el reino de Prusia (actual Alemania), paseaban por las calles imitando la vestimenta del personaje en el libro sensación de la época, Las penas del joven Werther. Asimismo, la exaltación de las emociones y la trágica culminación, hacía que el suicidio fuera un fenómeno social sin precedentes... y todo por amor. Un libro que sirve de catarsis al mismo Goethe, autor de este libro, en donde...
4) Egmont
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In "Egmont", Goethe relates the fight of Count Egmont (1522-1568) against the despotic Duke of Alba. Egmont is a famous Dutch warrior and the Duke of Alba represents the Spanish invader. Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardice of his people, and despite the desperate efforts of his mistress Klaerchen, he is sentenced to death. Thus, faced with her...
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Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater,...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28th August 1749 in Frankfurt, All of his siblings died at a young age except for his sister Cornelia and he was home schooled by his father and a range of tutors. He went to Leipzig to study law but preferred writing poetry. However, from these relatively unremarkable beginnings blossomed a remarkable life. Goethe became the most important cultural icon of his time. Whilst his influence is most closely seen...
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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. The meaning of the word and name has been reinterpreted through the ages. "Faust" has taken on a connotation distinct from its original use, and is often used today to describe a person whose headstrong desire for self-fulfillment leads him or her in a diabolical direction.
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Aus einem Zirkus entlaufen zwei Raubtiere - ein Tiger und ein Löwe. Als eine Fürstin von dem Tiger angegriffen wird, wird dieser von einem Begleiter erschossen. Die Schaustellerfamilie fürchtet nun um das Leben des Löwen. Tatsächlich gelingt es dem Sohn der Familie, den Löwen aus seinem Versteck zu locken und ihn damit vor dem gewaltsamen Tod zu bewahren. Parabelhaft birgt diese Geschichte die Erkenntnis, dass der Mächtige durch Kunst und Liebe...
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Translated in the original metres" by Edgar Alfred Bowring. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth."
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The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe's master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity.
With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama...
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Por más que Las confesiones de un alma bella constituya un texto de carácter literario, en él se encierra un interés filosófico, al menos a juzgar por la extensión del concepto de "alma bella" en la filosofía del siglo xviii, como se encuentra en Rousseau, Hegel, Schiller, entre otros. No obstante su origen se remonta hasta Platón, y de este a Plotino, de Plotino a san Agustín y de aquí a la mística alemana de la baja Edad Media y a la...
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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. The meaning of the word and name has been, reinterpreted through the ages. "Faust" has taken on a connotation distinct from its original use, and is often, used today to describe a person whose headstrong desire for self-fulfillment leads him or her in a diabolical direction.
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Brüssel im 16. Jahrhundert: Die Niederlande wollen das Joch der spanisch-habsburgischen Herrschaft abschütteln. Ihre Hoffnung ruht auf Graf Egmont, einem der drei niederländischen Statthalter. Er erscheint ihnen als der ideale Volksführer, großherzig, verantwortungsvoll und beliebt. Sein Gegenspieler, der brutale Herzog Alba, folgt allein den Gesetzen der Staatsautorität. Er führt den freiheitlich denkenden Egmont mit einer List ins Verderben.
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Short excerpt: "Were, then, these Switzers free? Free, these opulent burghers in their little pent-up towns-free, those poor devils on their rocks and crags? What is it that man cannot be made to believe, especially when he cherishes in his heart the memory of some old tale of marvel? Once, forsooth, they did break a tyrant's yoke, and might for the moment fancy themselves free; but out of the carcase of the single oppressor the good sun, by a strange...
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By the time Goethe's "Theory of Colours" appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and colour had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a knowledge of physics, he insisted that such knowledge was an actual hindrance to understanding. He based his conclusions exclusively upon exhaustive personal observation of the phenomena of colour....
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Mit dem Geheimrat zu verreisen, ist ein ganz besonderes Vergnügen. Im September 1786 bricht Johann Wolfgang Goethe – 37-jährig und gelangweilt vom Ministerleben – in Richtung Süden auf. Es geht über den Brenner und an den Gardasee, über Verona nach Venedig, weiter über Bologna, Rom und Neapel bis nach Sizilien. Die "Italienische Reise" ist eine der berühmtesten Reisebeschreibungen der Literaturgeschichte, sie ist aber auch ein Buch über...
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The wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established by the time the great German poet published his Theory of Colours in 1810. Nevertheless, Goethe believed that the theory derived from a fundamental error, in which an incidental result was mistaken for a elemental principle. Far from affecting a knowledge of physics, he maintained that such a background would inhibit understanding. The conclusions Goethe draws here rest entirely...
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The Golden Goblet traces Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetry from the idealism of youth to the liberation of maturity. In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe's poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. This robust selection, artfully translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, explores transformation, revolution, and illumination in Goethe's lush lyrical style that...
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Best known today as the author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first exploded into the public consciousness with The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was twenty-four. He was already a respected poet by then; and in addition to these forms, he wrote travelogues, autobiographical sketches, essays, letters, and proverbs in rhyme and prose. This collection offers outstanding examples of each genre from the great German writer's prolific...
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El apasionado y sentimental Werther ha encontrado la felicidad en un pequeño pueblo en el que el delicioso paisaje y la gente sencilla que lo habita aportan la calma y la serenidad que precisa su inquieto espíritu. Durante un baile trabará amistad con Lotte, la hija de un corregidor del príncipe, quien desde el primer instante despierta en él una pasión que ni siquiera el compromiso matrimonial de la joven puede apagar. Pese a ser consciente...
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