Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

by Rüdiger Safranski

Book Overview

The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and intimate. No other writer so completely captivated the intellectual life of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, putting into language the anxieties and ambitions of a civilization on the cusp of modernity. A literary celebrity by the age of twenty-five, Goethe, who was born in Frankfurt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404907
• ISBN13: 9780871404909
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"