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Als "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" 1809 erschienen, stand Goethe in seiner Popularität weit hinter Frühromantikern, patriotischen Dichtern oder populären Schriftstellern wie Kotzebue zurück, und ein entsprechender Misserfolg war der Roman eines Ehebruchs bis zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts auch. Heute erkennt man in ihm eine radikale Modernität, die sich einem Aufklärungsoptimismus, einer klassizistischen Kunstreligion oder einer romantischen Flucht ins Mythologische verweigert. Der Verfall der ländlich-aristokratischen Idylle lässt sich nicht aufhalten, Friede ergibt sich erst im Tod und Versöhnung bestenfalls im Jenseits. Nicht von ungefähr charakterisiert Thomas Mann die "Wahlverwandtschaften" als kapitales Alterswerk und "höchsten" Roman der Deutschen.

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PublisherReclam Verlag
Release dateApr 21, 2016
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe

<p>Johann Wolfgang Goethe, hijo de una familia de la alta burguesía, nació en Francfort en 1749, y murió en Weimar en 1832, universalmente reconocido y admirado. Entre una fecha y otra no sólo se extienden dos grandes revoluciones históricas, sino que la Ilustración, a través del <i>Sturm und Drang</i> y del clasicismo, ha dado paso al Romanticismo, que marcará el rumbo del hombre moderno. La vida de Goethe no se limitó a ser un reflejo privilegiado de todas estas conmociones, sino que participó activamente en casi todas ellas. Su novela de juventud <i>Las penas del joven Werther</i> (1774) causó sensación en toda Europa. En 1775 se estableció como consejero del duque Karl August en Weimar, ciudad que ya sólo abandonaría ocasionalmente. Un viaje a Italia (1786-88), durante el cual versificó su <i>Ifigenia en Táuride</i> (1787), y la amistad con Schiller moderaron su ímpetu juvenil, asentando el ideal humanista.</p> <p>Del clasicismo de Weimar que constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana. Pero su curiosidad abarcó también la geología, la biología, la botánica, la anatomía y la mineralogía, como se ve en obras como <i>La metamorfosis de las plantas</i> (1790) o <i>Teoría de los colores</i> (1810). Su obra maestra en dos partes, <i>Fausto</i> (1772-1831), aglutina espléndidamente todas las etapas de su carrera. En <i>Poesía y verdad</i> (1811-1830) dejó testimonio de su juventud. Alba ha publicado también, a modo de crónica de su vejez, <i>El hombre de cincuenta años / Elegía de Marienbad</i> (1807; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LVI) y la narración bocacciana <i>Conversaciones de emigrados alemanes</i> (1795; ALBA CLÁSICA núm.- LXXXV).</p>

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    It is very important you read a good edition of this book- as it affects the translation. I read one edition almost to the end and restarted from another, and it was an entirely different experience. The one I preferred, invariably, was the one you can find for free on the "Online Library of Liberty" website. As per the novel, it was amazing. There are ups, downs, tribulations, foils, the switching of motivations and emotions, love, obsession, and overall unity of form. It is a surprising journey from inception to denouement and there is something to be garnered from each and every character. The language, indeed, at times approaches the sublime as well (as well as Odette's diary entries--aphorism in themselves) that unite the entirety of the experience together in a closely knit flashion.4.5 stars--well deserved too!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Elective Affinities is a bit of slog (hard to tell whether that's because of the translation from German language or the inscrutableness of turn-of-the-19th-century German aristocracy), but it's also not without certain charms. If it weren't for Ottilie's observations as scattered throughout, I wouldn't have been able to finish it; she's a highly entertaining character amidst a cast of bores. Goethe has chosen pessimistic themes such as tragedy, death, and fatalism to illustrate an optimistic one, that of love. Well, the scientific or chemical attraction of love and how the laws of man regarding love and marriage are no match for laws of nature for the latter requires a conformity that may not be natural at all. I can't imagine to whom I would ever recommend this, but I'm glad I read it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Fiction, Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple both in their second marriage, invite the Captain, Eduard’s childhood friend, and Ottilie, the beautiful, orphaned, coming-of-age daughter of Charlotte’s deceased best-friend, to live with them. They are described as chemical species, whose amorous affairs and relationships were predetermined via chemical affinities, similar to the pairings of alchemical species. Goethe outlined the view that passion, marriage, conflict, and free-will are all subject to the laws of chemistry and in which the lives of human species are regulated no differently than the lives of chemical species. Max Weber, used Goethe's conception of human "elective affinities" to formulate a large part of his sociology; Jeremy Adler, a German historian, in "Goethe’s Elective Affinity and the Chemistry of its Time", 1987, studied Goethe’s use of chemical theory. By extending the reference of an established chemical theory to encompass social interactions, according to Adler, the novel provides the basis for a universal theory of affinity. First published in 1809 by J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, Berlin, under the title "Die Wahlverwandtschaften"