Goethe Etc.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Goethe in Copenhagen in 1932
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Goethe was never actually in Copenhagen, certainly not in 1932, but it shows the extent of his reach and influence and the general knowledge...
Saturday, February 24, 2024
What Goethe Saw, Anew
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The previous post discussed Goethe's travels in the summer of 1774. It was still "Genius" time in 1774, but a year later thing...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
What Goethe Saw
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Sometimes it is necessary to lift your eyes from the written words and try to see what Goethe saw. Goethe has been characterized as an ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Goethe Year 1932 in Argentina
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As I wrote in my previous post, 1932 marked the 100th anniversary of Goethe’s death, with commemorations organized worldwide. Another such c...
Monday, December 4, 2023
Goethe as a "True" Socialist
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A “true” socialist, I have learned, is a humanist. And a humanist, per 19th-century German socialist writer Karl Grün , was Goethe. Or so he...
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Sunday, October 29, 2023
Goethe is everywhere
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I am currently involved in de-cluttering my apartment. Many of you know the feeling: too many books! A book dealer came over and took fifty...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Goethe and the oral tradition of literature
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Brad Pitt as Achilles In the previous post, concerning the pastoral genre, I sought to convey how much Goethe drew on traditional poetic gen...
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