Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2024
Editura: Princeton University Press
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 408
Serie: Princeton Classics
Volum Din Serie: 135
ISBN: 9780691259147
Dimensiuni: l: 14cm | H: 21cm | 2.9cm | 514g
An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796), Goethe's second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre-perhaps 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.