Bøker av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Romanen inneholder Werthers etterlatte brev til Lotte, som han elsker, men ikke kan få. Til sist finner han ingen annen vei ut av lidelsene enn døden, og han begår selvmord med pistolen han har lånt av Lottes ektemann. Boken ble første gang utgitt i 1774, men ble forbudt i Danmark-Norge pga. frykt for usunn og farlig påvirkning. Denne oversettelsen baserer seg på Goethes originalversjon fra 1774. I tillegg inneholder den Goethes Tale til Shakespeares navnedag fra 1771.

I andre del er det "die grosse Welt" som åpner seg for Faust, et hierarkisk føydalsamfunn på vaklende grunn, med sine mer eller mindre tvilsomme spilleregler. Her får Faust stadig nye roller å spille, nye kulisser, med Mefistofeles som regissør og pådriver for handlingen, den slagferdige, selvsikre djevelen som hele tiden tar for gitt at han vil vinne spillet. Bare i møtet med antikkens rene åndeverden er Mefistofeles fremmedgjort og kjenner seg ille til mote. I 5. akt må han kapitulere for det kristne mysterium, kjærlighetens gjenskapermakt. Første gang utgitt i 1832.

I sitt store versedrama tegner Goethe hovedpersonen - sagnskikkelsen Faust - som en gammel vitenskapsmann med en umettelig kunnskapstørst og lengsel etter dypere innsikt og personlig utvikling. Han slutter en overenskomst med djevelen, og Mefistofeles gir ham hans ungdom tilbake. Faust forelsker seg i den unge piken Gretchen og forfører henne. Hun blir med barn, men gripes av panikk og drukner det. Siste scene i dramaets første del utspiller seg i et fangehull. Gretchen skal henrettes, men hun setter sin lit til Gud og vil ikke flykte med Faust. Dermed blir hennes sjel frelst.

Frontmatter -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Ephemerides -- Volkslieder

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Frontmatter -- Die Mitschuldigen -- Iphigenie auf Tauris -- Clavigo -- Die Geschwister -- Stella -- Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit -- Die Bögel

Dieses Buch über Goethe im Elsass, das neunte, zehnte, und elfte Buch in "Dichtung und Wahrheit", ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1910.Der Vero Verlag ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres.Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur.Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquitäten erhältlich. Der Vero Verlag verlegt diese Bücher neu und trägt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch für die Zukunft bei.

In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world's great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe's Divan. In order to preserve the work's original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe's own commentary, the "Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan." This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.

Elective Affinities, also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference to others. The novel is based on the metaphor of human passions being governed or regulated by the laws of chemical affinity, and examines whether or not the science and laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations. The story is situated around the city of Weimar. Goethe's main characters are Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple both in their second marriage, enjoying an idyllic but semi-dull life on the grounds of their rural estate. They invite the Captain, Eduard's childhood friend, and Ottilie, the beautiful, orphaned, coming-of-age niece of Charlotte, to live with them...

Werther is a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament. He meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother, and falls in love with her although knowing beforehand that she is engaged. Despite the pain it causes him, Werther keeps spending time with Charlotte, but his pain eventually becomes so great that he is forced to leave. After a short absence, he comes back to find Charlotte married, and his agony becomes a threat.