Prometheus : Faksimile

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Prometheus" von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Veröffentlicht von Good Press. Good Press ist Herausgeber einer breiten Büchervielfalt mit Titeln jeden Genres. Von bekannten Klassikern, Belletristik und Sachbüchern bis hin zu in Vergessenheit geratenen bzw. noch unentdeckten Werken der grenzüberschreitenden Literatur, bringen wir Bücher heraus, die man gelesen haben muss. Jede eBook-Ausgabe von Good Press wurde sorgfältig bearbeitet und formatiert, um das Leseerlebnis für alle eReader und Geräte zu verbessern. Unser Ziel ist es, benutzerfreundliche eBooks auf den Markt zu bringen, die für jeden in hochwertigem digitalem Format zugänglich sind.

Genres: Poetry, German Literature, Fiction, Plays, Classics, Mythology

First published January 1, 1772

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.

Reviews

[Constantin]

smh Conkan, literalmente nu puteai să alegi ceva mai greu de găsit și obscur

[andi]

nu o sa îi dau rating pentru că nu sunt fanul povestirilor atât de scurte (11 pagini) dar mi-a plăcut. am așteptat seminarul pentru a înțelege mai bine povestea, pentru că atunci când am terminat-o nu m-am simțit destul de satisfăcut, dar, acum că știu povestea din spate și înțeleg cu adevărat opera, a fost chiar interesantă.

[Costangeles · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Eu nu cunosc, o, zei, în toată firea,
Neam mai sărman ca voi
Și nici va fi!
Voi vă cârpiți vieața zi cu zi,
Hrănindu-vă mărirea
Cu-al jertfei bir,
Cu fumul rugăciunii,
Și ați pieri de foame, de n-ar fi
Copiii, cerșetorii, toți nebunii
Îngenuncheați nădejdii și minciunii."

Superb, absolut superb!

[Diana Lungu]

I never thought of Prometheus as the father of mankind, as knowing that he stole the fire and gave it to the people and thinking of it nothing more than an act of defiance to the gods. But Goethe’s vision on the matter struck me as rather poetic, the fire becoming the life itself, almost striking the clay figures with consciousness.
The idea of Pandora being Prometheus’ daughter is also a very interesting one, everything about her new position trying to say more about him than her, showing his new godlike abilities.

[Roxy Roman]

Avea potențial dacă era completă

[Marc ZEIMET · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ein Buch, in Form eines dramatischen Gedichts (Fragment), das dieser Tage im Gespräch war. Mit seiner facettenreichen Figur des Titanen ‘Prometheus’ im Fokus. War denn Anregung genug um sich mit dem Text (erneut - seit des Studiums am Gymnasiums) auseinanderzusetzen. Sieben Sätze, und 27 Seiten, aber zunächst keine einfache Lektüre. Erstes Gefühl: Ernüchterung.
Es bedarf des Hintergrundwissens über die Titanen und Götter der griechischen Mythologie und ihrer Auseinandersetzungen auf Erden. Und dann ihres zerrütteten Verhältnisses zurzeit als Prometheus, der gefallene Titan, sein Poem vorträgt.
Es ist eine herbe Kritik an den Göttern, die sich über die Herren im Himmel gar zuweilen lustig macht. Die Titanen, nach verlorenem Kampf, leben in der Verbannung, wobei Prometheus als ‘Freund der Menschen’ bezeichnet wird. Letzterer spiegelt die menschlichen Züge, Gefühle, Launen und Fehler gegen die generischen Verhaltensmuster der Götter. Und steht darob den Menschen und ihren Schicksalen näher. Viele metaphorische Deutungen sind möglich, auch für das Hier und Jetzt.
Eine zeitlose Dichtung und Teil des ewigen Schrifttums. Es bietet sich dennoch an sich ausgiebig mit dem Text auseinandersetzen, ihn zu interpretieren, und so für sich persönlich Wert zu schöpfen, nicht zuletzt sich immer wieder inspirieren zu lassen.
Fazit: Ohne Zweifel ein Meisterwerk der zeitlosen Weltliteratur, sicherlich interpretationsbedürftig, aber jeder kann herausholen, was er für diese Zeit und seine Lebenseinstellung dort finden kann

[Vanessa Gal]

La lumea mea: traieste!
Am faurit-o dupa chipul meu!

[Mariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I, worship you? What for?
Did you ever relieve
the ache of the heavy-laden?
Did you ever wipe away
the tears of the terror-stricken?
Was I not hammered into the shape of Man
by almighty Time
and eternal Destiny,
my masters, and yours?"

The story of Prometheus makes me think that I'm just like him. However I can't understand if he is the bad guy for betraying the Gods or just a guy that wants to be free from their will (I guess that's the point).

[Anica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually liked this fragment. Maybe it was because of the topic but Goethe and classical stuff works waaaay better for me (already loved Goethe's "Iphigenie auf Tauris") than such shit like "Götz". Ugh.

[Gijs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fragment voor een toneelstuk. Helaas is dit nooit verder uitgewerkt, want het fragment zelf is al boeiend. Prometheus wil niet de Olympus betreden en zo door de Goden een God gemaakt worden. Hij wil zelfstandig een God worden; zijn eigen wereld creeeren. Het deed me nogal eens denken aan Kloos: Ik ben een God in 't diepst van mijn gedachten.