Le affinità elettive
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788844035631 (8844035634)
ASIN: 8844035634
Publish date: April 7th 2008
Publisher: Giunti Demetra
Pages no: 320
Edition language: Italian
Introduction--Elective AffinitiesChronologyFurther Reading
Con tutto il rispetto per Goethe, ma a me questo libro proprio non è piaciuto. È scritto con un tono pomposo e ha un finale orribile.
I found a few very helpful notes in the Penguin Classics introduction by R. J. Hollingdale, although the introduction in this edition (by David Constantine) is much more thorough from a lit crit angle.
I read this beautiful novel in German. Though I might have objected to how structured it is, so full of symbols and echoes, in the hands of a master like Goethe it only contributes to the subtle atmosphere. What's more, the characters are individual and detailed, as comes out through their interacti...
Herr Goethe definitely had a passion for drama and tragedy. Except this time she dies but, don't cry yet, he joins her in death (gothic, right?) and "Thus the lovers lie sleeping side by side ; peace hovers above their resting-place ; fair angel faces gaze down upon them from aloft. And what happine...
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