German poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist, and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) was the last universal genius of the West and a master of world literature, the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister, and Faust. Nowhere else can one encounter a more penetrating, manysided, and personal Goethe than in the extraordinary Conversations (1836) by Johann Peter Eckermann (17921854), a German author and scholar as well as Goethes friend, archivist, and editor. Although only thirtyone when first meeting the seventyfouryearold literary giant, Eckermann quickly devoted himself to assisting Goethe during his last nine years while never failing to record their farranging discourse. Here are Goethes thoughts on Byron, Carlyle, Delacroix, Hegel, Shakespeare, and Voltaire, as well as his views on art, architecture, astronomy, the Bible, Chinese literature, criticism, dreams, ethics, freedom, genius, imagination, immortality, love, mind over body, sculpture, and much more. Eckermanns Conversationscomparable to Boswells Life of Samuel Johnsonallows Goethe to engage the reader in a voice as distinct as it is entrancing.

Binding: Paperback;480 pages; Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA; Classification: DNF; Weight: 500 g; Dimensions: 205 x 128 x 31

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