Sicilia En En El Grand Tour

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexandre Dumas, Albert Guy de Maupassant

Hasta que Grecia se independizó del Imperio otomano bien entrado el siglo XIX, aquellos estudiosos europeos que en busca de sus propias raíces realizaban ese viaje formativo al que Richard Lassels se refirió por vez primera como el "Grand Tour" (1670), limitaban su trayecto nada más -y nada menos- que a la Magna Grecia; esto es, al sur de la actual Italia y a Sicilia. Conviene aclarar que cuando se habla de la Grecia clásica no solo nos referimos al territorio griego actual sino, en general, a la cultura griega que impregnaba las vidas y costumbres de todo el Mediterráneo. Y, evidentemente, Sicilia fue uno de los lugares nucleares de aquella cultura. Y, además, uno de los que más y mejores restos conserva. Si a ello añadimos el crisol de pueblos que la mayor isla del Mediterráneo ha conformado, vertiendo en él su impronta gentes tan singulares como los normandos, los sarracenos, los franceses y los españoles, no resultará exagerado afirmar que nos encontramos ante una experiencia única y apasionante. Y así lo vieron aquellos privilegiados viajeros del Grand Tour. Que, además, nos trasladen sus experiencias personales plumas tan diversas y autorizadas como las del alemán Goethe y los franceses Alejandro Dumas y Guy de Maupassant, leerlas es compartirlas. Disfrute pues el lector, y aprenda, con estos tres textos enriquecidos por abundantes notas que constituyen la más eficaz guía de viaje y lectura. lecturas-hispanicas.com

554 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2018

About the author

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.

George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours , he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.

Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.

Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.