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Goethe. Poesia e verità: Testo tedesco a fronte

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NON DISPONIBILE PER KINDLE E-INK, PAPERWHITE, OASIS. Nella sua lunga vita, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749- 1832) visse in prima persona grandi rivolgimenti storici e vide l’avvicendarsi di diverse epoche, tanto da poter dire, superati gli ottant’anni, di essere ormai «divenuto storia a se stesso». Con sguardo ironico il ‘principe dei poeti’, ormai anziano, si ripercorre l’infanzia a Francoforte, il difficile rapporto con il padre, i turbolenti anni di studio e tutta la giovinezza fino ai ventisei anni quando decise, all’improvviso e non senza colpi di scena, di recarsi a Weimar. Poesia e verità, il più affascinante e grandioso racconto autobiografico della letteratura tedesca, pubblicato in quattro parti dal 1811 al 1833, accompagna il lettore attraverso fasi cruciali della letteratura tedesca, da Klopstock alla formidabile costellazione di poeti, critici, scrittori che si raccoglie intorno al giovane Goethe nel periodo ‘geniale’ di Strasburgo, dove emergono moltissimi dei temi che lo accompagneranno per tutta la vita. Insieme allo Sturm und Drang matura la sua vocazione letteraria coronata dalle prime opere di successo, Götz von Berlichingen e Werther – la scrittura come «grande confessione» in cui verità e poesia, realtà e letteratura si confondono, regalandoci un’immagine fresca e incisiva del più grande tra i poeti tedeschi. La traduzione si basa sull’edizione in 40 volumi delle opere di Johann Wolfgang Goethe, uscita dal 1986 al 2013 presso il Deutscher Klassiker Verlag (Frankfurter Ausgabe, vol. XIV, curato da Klaus- Detlef Müller); si tratta della più ampia e completa edizione di Goethe del XX secolo.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

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