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  • Paperback: 848 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (9 Jul 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192829815
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192829818
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 4 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive masterpiece, 12 Oct 2008
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I was astonished to see there is no review of this book. It is simply the finest work on Goethe produced in this generation: it deserves to be read to understand not only German culture and literature, but also the development of Europe and European ideas during the life of the young Goethe. It is long, the proverbial "heavenly length".
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5.0 out of 5 stars A truly magnificent biography, 29 Oct 2008
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This is a magnificent biography. Nicholas Boyle, the Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge University, brilliantly portrays Goethe's first forty years, setting him in his social, political and cultural contexts.

Boyle is also superbly perceptive about Goethe's work and about his relationship to the intellectual and aesthetic currents in late 18th-century German and European culture. For example, he notes, "For absolute individualism belongs only in a theatre of inner conflict, not in a theatre of external conflict between worldly forces, and so is in the end the hand-maid of state absolutism."

Boyle also observes that Goethe had no religion: "There is no room for the fancies of reincarnation." Goethe simply acknowledges our mortality: "we are together like this only once."
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