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Beschreibung
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is Goethe's seminal Bildungsroman, tracing a young merchant's son as he abandons commercial duty for the seductive, unstable world of the theater and the deeper education of experience. Blending theatrical satire, philosophical reflection, romance, and social observation, the novel helped define the modern narrative of formation. Its episodic structure, mysterious societies, and shifting ideals of art and vocation place it at the crossroads of Enlightenment rationality, Weimar Classicism, and early Romantic inwardness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, scientist, and statesman, brought to the novel his lifelong concern with self-cultivation, aesthetic freedom, and the reconciliation of individual desire with social responsibility. His own involvement with theater, court life at Weimar, and conversations with the intellectual currents of late eighteenth-century Germany inform Wilhelm's passage from youthful illusion toward a more disciplined understanding of art, love, and destiny. This book is essential for readers interested in the European novel, the history of selfhood, or the relation between art and life. Patient readers will find not merely a coming-of-age story, but a profound meditation on how a person becomes fit for the world.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is Goethe's seminal Bildungsroman, tracing a young merchant's son as he abandons commercial duty for the seductive, unstable world of the theater and the deeper education of experience. Blending theatrical satire, philosophical reflection, romance, and social observation, the novel helped define the modern narrative of formation. Its episodic structure, mysterious societies, and shifting ideals of art and vocation place it at the crossroads of Enlightenment rationality, Weimar Classicism, and early Romantic inwardness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, scientist, and statesman, brought to the novel his lifelong concern with self-cultivation, aesthetic freedom, and the reconciliation of individual desire with social responsibility. His own involvement with theater, court life at Weimar, and conversations with the intellectual currents of late eighteenth-century Germany inform Wilhelm's passage from youthful illusion toward a more disciplined understanding of art, love, and destiny. This book is essential for readers interested in the European novel, the history of selfhood, or the relation between art and life. Patient readers will find not merely a coming-of-age story, but a profound meditation on how a person becomes fit for the world.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028335267
ISBN-10: 8028335268
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Übersetzung: Carlyle, Thomas
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,51 kg
Artikel-ID: 128160314

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