Bøger af Richard Friedenthal

"The study of Goethe's life is a task that each generation must undertake anew.

As novelist, dramatist, and poet, Johann Goethe produced epochal works of fiery romanticism, only later to dedicate himself to a classical ideal of purity and measure. His superb love lyrics immortalize a succession of ardent relationships; yet, in him too, was a strain of frigid egotism mingled with an Olympian detachment.