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- ISBN 9781789141986
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust. Alongside these works the incidents of his life are analysed, including his love affairs and his meetings with the great people of the age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jeremy Adler shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in many fields influenced later thinkers such as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns – a maker of modernity.
Jeremy Adler is Professor Emeritus of German and Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. He has published and edited books on many topics, including Goethe, visual poetry, Kafka, exile literature, Elias Canetti and Hölderlin. He reviews and writes for the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
