Having previously tackled Nietzsche and Schiller, renowned biographer Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. This sterling biography of Germanys greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.

Klappentext

Having previously tackled Nietzsche and Schiller, renowned biographer Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. An illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era, Safranski's biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE as if we are seeing him for the first time.

Autorentext
Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher, writer and the author of biographies on Friedrich Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Klappentext

Having previously tackled Nietzsche and Schiller, renowned biographer Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. An illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era, Safranski's biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE as if we are seeing him for the first time.