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Paperback Italian Journey: 1786-1788 Book

ISBN: 0140442332

ISBN13: 9780140442335

Italienische Reise

(Book #22 in the Goethe's Werke 1827-30 Series)

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Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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goethes diary and 40 of his own drawings

In this diary, Goethe describes his trip to 18th-century Italy, his impressions of the countryside and the people, his fascination with Roman culture and Italian art. Goethe considered Italy the inspiration for poets and returned many times. His diary is more than a book about Italy. Goethe had many interests including biology, geology and archaeology, all of which show in his writing. Goethe also painted, and the 2-volume...

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Breakout and breakthrough

Goethe's Italian journey came after ten hard years administering and working at Weimar. In these years his literary output contracted. The trip to Italy was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, a dream inspired in part by his own father's earlier journey and love of Italy. In Italy Goethe found yet another side of his multifaceted self . He opened to the world and the light and to sensuous reality. His connection with Nature...

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The Immediate View. . .

Those who love Goethe or love Italy or love traveling might have come across The Italian Journey, Goethe's late-in-life rendering of his experience "fleeing" Weimar and hopeless love to fulfill a lifelong dream of being in Italy. I can't say staying in Italy or visiting Italy or studying Italy because Goethe's quest was so much more profound and fundamental; in Italy Goethe hoped to BE. This diary and these letters, however,...

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Beautiful

This has long been my favorite work by Goethe. It is very readable, which most people don't expect from Goethe, connecting him to his poetry and to Faust, etc. But the book reveals so much about him (the reader gets a sense that the man knows he will be evaluated by people hundreds of years hence) and it also leaves so much to the imagination. I can't recommend this book more highly. It contains the musings of a brilliant...

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Still the best guide to Italy.

This classic reveals much about Goethe, as well as about Italy. In observing the waves at the gulf of Naples he shows the extreme empiricism of his incursions into science, with beautiful words, of course. The portraits of Naples and Catania are still up to date in their essentials. I wish I had read this book before my long sojourn in that wonderful country.

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