Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
by A. N. Wilson
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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. The author 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 show more undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing - Faust. Goethe spent over 60 years writing his retelling of Faust, a strange 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. show lessTags
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A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire, England, and was educated at the Rugby School and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
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- 833.60 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1750-1832 : 18th century, classical period, romantic period
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- PT2049 .W55 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1700-ca. 1860/70 Goethe Biography and criticism
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