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Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling" is well known in the German-speaking world. The lines in which the apprentice implores the returning sorcerer to help him with the mess he created have turned into a cliché, especially the line "Die Geister, die ich rief" ("The spirits that I summoned"), a simplified version of one of Goethe's lines "Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los" - "The ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
Mignon, a fictional character in Goethe's novels Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years. Mignon (Schubert), the Goethe character and the subject of several lieder by Schubert; the title character of Modeste Mignon, an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac; Mignon, a 1962 novel by James M. Cain
In her 2001 book Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics, she writes: From the time of its publication to today, Goethe's novel, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities, 1809), has aroused a storm of interpretive confusion. Readers fiercely debate the role of the chemical theory of elective affinities presented in the novel.
It concludes Goethe's novella rondo Conversations of German Emigrants (1795). Das Märchen is regarded as the founding example of the genre of Kunstmärchen , or artistic fairy tale. [ 1 ] The story revolves around the crossing and bridging of a river, which represents the divide between the outer life of the senses and the ideal aspirations of ...
Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788.Its dramaturgical structure, like that of his earlier Sturm und Drang play Götz von Berlichingen (1773), is heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy. [1]
[24] Her answer was that Goethe wished to express "the essential nature" of the power which he thus invoked: "It is not the feminine in its manifestation"—i.e. actual female-sexed bodies [25] —"but in its original character" [26] This "original character" is what she had called a little earlier "one aspect of the eternal thought".