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1) 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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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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German writer Johann Goethe's novella "Elective Affinities" is a singular book which attracts both creative minds and pragmatic minds. Romantics at heart will be drawn to the convoluted love affair; married couple Eduard and Charlotte invite two close friends to live with them on their idyllic estate for a short time. The innocent invitation takes an unexpected turn though, as each of the spouses become attracted to their guests. Eduard falls in love...
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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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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...
7) Novelle
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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...
8) Fausto
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"Último grande poema dos tempos modernos", no dizer de Otto Maria Carpeaux, o "Fausto" de Goethe está para a Modernidade assim como "A Divina Comédia" de Dante para a Idade Média. Representa não só a obra máxima de seu autor, mas a suma do conhecimento e das aspirações de sua época.
9) Faust
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Extrait: "Ah! philosophie, jurisprudence et médecine pour mon malheur! théologie aussi, j'ai tout approfondi avec une ardeur laborieuse; et maintenant me voici là, pauvre fou! aussi sage qu'auparavant. Je m'intitule, il est vrai, maître, docteur, et, depuis dix ans, deçà, delà, en long, en large, je traîne mes élèves par le nez."
10) Werther
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Extrait : "Que je suis aise d'être parti ! Ah ! mon ami, qu'est-ce que le cœur de l'homme ? Te quitter, toi que j'aime, toi dont j'étais inséparable ; te quitter et être content ! Mais je sais que tu me le pardonnes. Mes autres liaisons ne semblaient-elles pas tout exprès choisies du sort pour tourmenter un cœur comme le mien ? La pauvre Léonore !"
11) Elegías Romanas
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Las Elegías Romanas constituyen uno de los momentos más brillantes de la poesía de Goethe. Por su métrica, objeto y finalidad Elegías Romanas representan una de las cimas del llamado "clasicismo de Weimar" y, en consecuencia, son también una muestra de rechazo a la sensibilidad romántica. Goethe quiere una poesía natural, que cante y diga la naturaleza en su inmediatez perceptual: quiere ver la naturaleza como sexo y paisaje. Pero las Elegías...
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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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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest writers of the German Romantic period. Matthew Bell is professor of German and comparative literature at King's College London. His books include Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology and Melancholia: The Western Malady.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English
The Essential Goethe...
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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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Johann Wolfgang Goethes 1776 erschienenes und uraufgeführtes Drama Stella, ein »Schauspiel für Liebende«, handelt von Cäcilie (anfangs unter dem Namen Madame Sommer), ihrer Tochter Lucie, der Baronesse Stella – und Fernando, der Mann, der beide Frauen verlassen hat und sich zu beiden Frauen hingezogen fühlt. In einer Poststation treffen sie alle zusammen. In der Folge lösen Fluchtgedanken und Verzichtsbekundungen einander ab. Die schließlich...
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Beloved by the gods for his wisdom, the demigod Tantalus was once invited to their fellowship. Becoming boisterous whilst celebrating with them, he began to boast, and he stole the gods' nectar and ambrosia, their food of immortality. When the gods came to see Tantalus in turn, he tested their omniscience by offering his own son Pelops to them as their meal. Offended by the deception, the gods banished Tantalus from their community to Tartarus and...
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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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El protagonista de la novela, Werther, es un joven de carácter sensible y pasional que se enamora locamente de Charlotte, una mujer que se halla comprometida a otro hombre. Werther es un hombre apuesto que suscita el interés de muchas otras mujeres, pero él está enamorado de Charlotte, quien no lo ama, y a pesar del intenso dolor que le causa el amor no correspondido, Werther desarrolla una amistad íntima con ella e incluso posteriormente, con...
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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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