J. W. von Goethe

Elective Affinities

A Novel

Buch

In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation. The novel asks whether we have free will or not; more disturbingly, it confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of their repression of any real life in themselves. Goethe wrote Elective Affinities when he was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant… Mehr

CHF 18.50

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

V112: Lieferbar in ca. 10-20 Arbeitstagen

Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Constantine, David (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-955536-9
EAN: 9780199555369
Produktnummer: 3853602
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.3 cm 192 g
Gewicht: 192

Über den Autor

David Constantine is a Fellow in German at The Queen's College, Oxford. He is a poet (published by Bloodaxe) and translator as well as being an Oxford academic.