Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

by Rüdiger Safranski

Book Overview

A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and--as R?diger Safranksi emphasizes--a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631494899
• ISBN13: 9781631494895
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"