Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre was the most influential German novel ever written. However, its so-called sequel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagenden (Wilhelm Meister's Travels) has never been a popular work and has received much less critical attention than the Lehrjahre. A Recent upsurge of interest among literary critics in Goethe's late novel has much to do with the fact that some "idiosyncrasies" of the book -its unconventional structure, its mixture of genres, its irony, its disdain for ...
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Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre was the most influential German novel ever written. However, its so-called sequel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagenden (Wilhelm Meister's Travels) has never been a popular work and has received much less critical attention than the Lehrjahre. A Recent upsurge of interest among literary critics in Goethe's late novel has much to do with the fact that some "idiosyncrasies" of the book -its unconventional structure, its mixture of genres, its irony, its disdain for verisimilitude, its philosophical-analytical passages - mark it precisely as a fore-runner of the modern novel, or, better put, show undeniable affinities with the structure and modes of modern literature and thus mark it as a work particularly worthy of our interest. Professor James Hardin (South Carolina) provides a new introduction to the work that analyzes its relationship to its more famous predecessor, and the role of Goethe's works in Carlyle's creative career.
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Near Fine in Very Good plus jacket. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean. Binding is square and tight. Faint wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Text block is clean. Dust jacket is very lightly soiled, scuffed and rubbed. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
