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Il più enigmatico tra i romanzi di Goethe
La trama è di una semplicità apparentemente due sposi, Charlotte ed Eduard, che vivono in una grandissima tenuta in campagna, la cui natura selvatica tendono a imbrigliare con poderose opere di giardinaggio, invitano un amico di Eduard (il Capitano) e una ragazza di cui Charlotte è tutrice (Ottilie). L’ingresso prima di un terzo e poi di un quarto elemento altera la vita della coppia. L’apparente semplicità nasconde abissi l’ambiguo e indecifrabile mistero del romanzo lo rende - come ogni classico che si rispetti - inesauribile.
Lo proponiamo nella traduzione in italiano di Silvio Benco (1874-1949): perché i lettori possano immergersi nel contesto, anche linguistico, dell’epoca.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Francoforte, 1749 – Weimar, 1832) è stato uno scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo tedesco. Genio fra i più poderosi e poliedrici della storia moderna.
Collana Il Disoriente - Luoghi della lettura
Le pubblicazioni Intra sono tutte in formato cartaceo tascabile (12,7×20,3 cm) e in ebook, con grande attenzione rivolta alla leggibilità del testo e alla grafica.
La trama è di una semplicità apparentemente due sposi, Charlotte ed Eduard, che vivono in una grandissima tenuta in campagna, la cui natura selvatica tendono a imbrigliare con poderose opere di giardinaggio, invitano un amico di Eduard (il Capitano) e una ragazza di cui Charlotte è tutrice (Ottilie). L’ingresso prima di un terzo e poi di un quarto elemento altera la vita della coppia. L’apparente semplicità nasconde abissi l’ambiguo e indecifrabile mistero del romanzo lo rende - come ogni classico che si rispetti - inesauribile.
Lo proponiamo nella traduzione in italiano di Silvio Benco (1874-1949): perché i lettori possano immergersi nel contesto, anche linguistico, dell’epoca.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Francoforte, 1749 – Weimar, 1832) è stato uno scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo tedesco. Genio fra i più poderosi e poliedrici della storia moderna.
Collana Il Disoriente - Luoghi della lettura
Le pubblicazioni Intra sono tutte in formato cartaceo tascabile (12,7×20,3 cm) e in ebook, con grande attenzione rivolta alla leggibilità del testo e alla grafica.
213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2021
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13.8k books7,403 followersA 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.
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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la prima parte è stata abbastanza interessante ma la seconda l'ho trovata inutile, come se servissero allo svolgimento della trama le Mille visite che riceveva carlotta... l'ho trovato un po un allungare il brodo e questo lo ha reso davvero pesante
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