Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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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...
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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...
4) 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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Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater,...
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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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Translated in the original metres" by Edgar Alfred Bowring. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth."
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Short excerpt: "Were, then, these Switzers free? Free, these opulent burghers in their little pent-up towns-free, those poor devils on their rocks and crags? What is it that man cannot be made to believe, especially when he cherishes in his heart the memory of some old tale of marvel? Once, forsooth, they did break a tyrant's yoke, and might for the moment fancy themselves free; but out of the carcase of the single oppressor the good sun, by a strange...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, con su excepcional habilidad para retratar de manera precisa los movimientos más sutiles y complejos del alma, es indiscutiblemente uno de los grandes nombres de la literatura mundial y el principal escritor en lengua alemana. En "Los años de aprendizaje de Guillermo Meister", Goethe narra la trayectoria del joven Wilhelm Meister, hijo de una pareja de la burguesía alemana. Contrariando las expectativas de la familia,...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest artists of the German Romantic period. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher. David E. Wellbery is the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work....
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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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Exceptionally fine poetry by Germany's greatest literary figure spans a wide range of styles, forms and moods, offering a rich selection of the poet's verse - from his earliest, "An den Schlaf" ("To Sleep"), written when he was 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis" ("Legacy"), written when he was 80.
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Brüssel im 16. Jahrhundert: Die Niederlande wollen das Joch der spanisch-habsburgischen Herrschaft abschütteln. Ihre Hoffnung ruht auf Graf Egmont, einem der drei niederländischen Statthalter. Er erscheint ihnen als der ideale Volksführer, großherzig, verantwortungsvoll und beliebt. Sein Gegenspieler, der brutale Herzog Alba, folgt allein den Gesetzen der Staatsautorität. Er führt den freiheitlich denkenden Egmont mit einer List ins Verderben.
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Best known today as the author of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first exploded into the public consciousness with The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was twenty-four. He was already a respected poet by then; and in addition to these forms, he wrote travelogues, autobiographical sketches, essays, letters, and proverbs in rhyme and prose. This collection offers outstanding examples of each genre from the great German writer's prolific...
18) 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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Considerada como una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal, narra cómo Fausto -frustrado por no alcanzar la totalidad de sus conocimientos-, pacta con Mefistófeles, quien le ofrece todo mientras esté en la tierra. Así conoce a Margarita quien queda seducida y embarazada de Fausto. Margarita ahoga a su propio hijo y muere también en los brazos de Fausto. A partir de ahí comienza un sin fin de aventuras, viaja en el tiempo y el espacio:...