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Conversations With Goethe: In the Last Years Of His Life
[Paperback - 2022]
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Publisher: Penguin Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241421673 | Pages: 752
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A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German s greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years

The best German book there is Nietzsche

By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous people in the world. In 1823 he became friend and mentor to the young writer Johann Eckermann, who, for the last nine years of Goethe s life, recorded their wide-ranging conversations on art, literature, science and philosophy. This rich portrait of Germany s literary elder statesman, now in its first new translation for over 150 years, gives a fascinating glimpse into a great mind as well as many insights and invaluable lessons about life.

Translated by Allan Blunden with an Introduction by Ritchie Robertson

Dr Allan Blunden is a British translator specializing in German literature. He won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2017 for his translation of Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, and has also translated biographies of Heidegger and Stefan Zweig, as well as Erhard Eppler s The Return of the State?, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Schlegel-Tieck Prize.

Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the board of the Voltaire Foundation which promotes research on the Enlightenment, and is a frequent reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.

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