Correspondência

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Cláudia Cavalcanti (Translator)

Esta edição reúne 136 cartas trocadas entre Goethe e Schiller de 1794 a 1803, além de um ensaio escrito em colaboração pelos dois autores, Sobre literatura épica e dramática. Nestas cartas está registrada a convivência entre dois escritores seminais da literatura moderna, cada um atuando para o outro como um tipo muito raro de interlocutor.Os anos que a correspondência recobre são os mesmos que veem surgir ou em que são formuladas obras fundamentais, como o Fausto, Os anos de aprendizado de Wilhelm Meister e a Teoria da cores, de Goethe, e Poesia ingênua e sentimental e Wallenstein, de Schiller.Além das obras particulares, esta seleção de cartas inclui debates importantes sobre Aristóteles, sobre os gêneros épico e dramático e sobre a proeminência do drama em relação à lírica. Também aparecem cenas mais circunstanciais da vida literária, como as polêmicas ou os encontros, que incluem escritores como Madame de Stäel e Hölderlin.

Genres: Nonfiction

248 pages, Pocket book

First published September 28, 2010

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

[Pedro · Rating 2 out of 5]

salvas algumas cartas de 1798, em que Schiller fala do empirismo racional, acrescentou pouco à pesquisa.