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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (–), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and―as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes―a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Safranski has scoured Goethe's entire German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski (Romanticism: A German Affair) achieves serious artistic and intellectual heights in his epic biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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This document provides an overview Goethe (–), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and, as Safranski emphasizes, a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but also the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying on primary sources.

This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (–), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning.

As Rüdiger Safranski's “Goethe: Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (–), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

A masterful intellectual portrait, Among the many merits of Rüdiger Safranski’s masterly biography is that it explores the full range of Goethe’s achievements. Novelist and naturalist, statesman and poet, Goethe (–) made significant contributions to an astonishing array of disciplines.

Rüdiger Safranski, the award-winning grand master Expertly written biography as well as in depth analysis of many of Goethe’s works. Rüdiger Safranski recreates the time and place, as well as brings many of these long dead personages back to life. Extremely thorough, you feel as if you yourself have lived through everyone of The Great Man’s 82 years by the close of this weighty tome.