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An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novelWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (17951796), Goethe's second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genreperhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive bourgeois world of his upbringing and seek fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Goethe's novel had a huge impact on the Romantics. Hegel, Schelling, Novalis, and Schopenhauer considered it one of the most important novels yet written. Schlegel famously called it one of the three tendencies of the age, along with the French Revolution and the philosophy of Fichte. And Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann set poems from the novel to music. It also had a major influence on nineteenth-century British writers, including Thomas Carlyle, who was its

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''At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn''t have let me go if I hadn''t. I wasn''t going to be stopped, for it was time.''This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany''s greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood. Leaving behind the growing frustrations of administrative work, a difficult love-affair, and lack of time to write, he discovers himself again as a sensuous being and an artist. His fresh and spontaneous notes, sometimes dashed down at crowded tables in primitive Italian inns, bring together art and nature, Antiquity and the Renaissance, aesthetics and science, observations of climate, rocks, plants, and the Italian people, in an unpremeditated mixture through which the poet''s mature vision of the natural and human world can be seen taking shape. Goethe''s Italian diary brings us close to a great European writer at a turning-point in his life.ABOUT THE

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This book, Faust . Theil 1, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a replication of a book originally published before 1907. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

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Este primer tomo de Narrativa del padre de la literatura alemana moderna contiene sus novelas y textos en prosa narrativa. Incluye Los sufrimientos del joven Werther y Conversaciones de emigrantes alemanes (con la traducción de Marisa Siguan y Eduardo Aznar); Los años de aprendizaje de Wilhelm Meister y Los años itinerantes de Wilhelm Meister (con la versión de Miguel Salmerón); y de Las afinidades electivas (con la traducción de Helena Cortés). Todos los tomos de la BLU cuenta con un editor literario, papel que ha desempeñado la profesora Marisa Siguan, del Departamento de Filologías Germánicas de la Universidad de Barcelona. La profesora Siguan es la autora de la introducción y las notas al texto.Como novedades destacar que Miguel Salmerón nos ofrece su nueva versión de la Segunda Parte de Wilhem Meister, pocas veces añadidas en edición completa en español, además de su reputada versión de la Primera Parte de la obra. La profesora Siguan ha real

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L a vastedad, la complejidad y la genialidad de la poesía de Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( Frankfurt 1749-Weimar 1832) explican por qué la cultura de su tiempo, y hasta nuestros días, lo consagró como a un semidiós. Figura capital del romanticismo y posteriormente del clasicismo, el pensamiento crítico contemporáneo está todavía profundamente perplejo ante su obra. Profundidad metafísica a la vez que ligereza en el acento expresivo, siempre Goethe es él mismo: hondo y epidérmico, inteligente y sensual; cerebro y corazón en tangencias paralelas y seguras. Es decir, un genio.

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En Las desventuras del joven Werther (1773), Goethe expone todo el pesimismo de un joven apasionado y sensible ante un amor imposible, y sus trágicas consecuencias. La novela tuvo un éxito inmediato ?de hecho puede considerarse el primer best seller de la historia?, y supuso un punto de inflexión literario y psicológico, dando lugar al Sturm und Drang, movimiento precursor del Romanticismo que rompía con los convencionalismos del Racionalismo imperante y establecía como fuentes de inspiración el sentimiento y la pasión. Esta edición incluye un estudio biográfico del autor por Emil Ludwig.

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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832). Goethe's works available in Penguin Classics are Faust, Part I, Faust, Part II, Maxims and Reflections, Elective Affinities, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Selected Poetry amd Italian Journey 1786-1788.

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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Along with Eric Blackall's fresh translation of the work, this edition contains notes and an afterword by the translator that aims to put this novel into historical and artistic perspective for twentieth-century readers while showing how it defies categorization.

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A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation. Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1774. His hugely influential novel informed the writing of, among others, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. In translating The Sufferings of Young Werther, Corngold follows the German text closely, never knowingly using a word that was not current in English at the time the novel was written and yet maintaining a modern grace and flair. The result is an eagerly awaited translation that speaks to our time through the astonishing liveliness of Goethe's language—as well through the translator's own.

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La figura del doctor Fausto, personaje legendario que vende su alma al demonio a cambio del disfrute de la vida mediante el logro de todos los impulsos de la voluntad, fue recreada desde el Renacimiento por diversos literatos, pero fue J. W. Goethe (1749-1832) quien enriqueció la leyenda y le confirió un profundo valor filosófico y humano. En su ?Fausto?, publicado en dos partes (1808 y 1832), la búsqueda de lo absoluto y de la plenitud vital convierte al personaje en un prototipo del espíritu siempre insatisfecho del hombre romántico y en un símbolo del destino de la humanidad. Sin embargo, como apunta Francisco Ayala, esta obra cumbre de la literatura ?no nos da un arquetipo humano, como don Juan o el rey Lear o Tartufo [.] En verdad, todo lo que acontece a Fausto a lo largo del poema no constituye su tragedia: su tragedia no es algo en que se realiza su vida, sino que es precisamente la vida misma?. Desesperado y desengañado por el intelecto, el protagonista proclama la acción como

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