Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung.

Wilhelm Meister

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Genres: Classics, Fiction, German Literature

389 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1777

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

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Amico, amico mio, che terribile fatica è staccarsi a forza da se stessi".

[Marmott79 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Che due palle, che due palle, che due immense, mastodontiche palle!
Colpa mia, non sapevo che di Meister ce ne fossero due e ho preso il primo che ho trovato.
Tempo perso irrimediabilmente, lo ho scoperto solo leggendo la prefazione ma, testarda, ho voluto proseguire.

Se di un testo venite a sapere che l'autore non lo ha dato alle stampe un motivo c'è sempre e non lasciatevi abbindolare da chi dice che bisogna leggerlo.
No, non bisogna leggerlo, lasciate che siano gli autori a decidere cosa tramandare, non i parenti e men che meno gli editori.

E adesso mi tocca rimettermi a cercare il Meister vero, uffa

[luisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

(actually 2,75 something)

[Manuela Mongiardino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goethe, il primo classico della letteratura tedesca, ci porta a scoprire la cultura, la letteratura e il teatro nazionale tedesco che nasce nel '700, grazie a lui, a Schiller, a Gottsched e Lessing.
Un romanzo tra saggio e narrazione.

[Leeeo- · Rating 2 out of 5]

Du' palle...

[Mattia Agnelli]

“la vicinanza, nemica di ogni romanticismo”