JOHN ARMSTRONG knows he has an uphill battle in making a case for his subject, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The author even begins his book, “Love, Life, Goethe,” with the Dublin building-site joke he ...
THE consciousness that biography is a particular and a difficult art is borne in upon us when we stop to consider how few, how very few, of our really heroic figures have been set before us in ...
The 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is celebrated worldwide tomorrow, and though ecstatic readers no longer commit suicide in his honor, he remains a titanic figure in world literature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), most commonly known in the English-speaking world as “the German Shakespeare,” lived large. At 25 his novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” made him into a ...
Alexander Fehling in "Young Goethe in Love." Photo by Music Box Films Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) has the soul of a poet, which bodes well for his future as a literary giant but poses problems ...
Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success: he wanted to ...
Driven by curiosity and the lust for life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s body of work encompassed a wide range of topics. | Photo (detail): © picture alliance/akg ...
There have been very few Renaissance men since the Renaissance—and they weren’t exactly thick on the ground even in their glory days. No modern figure is more worthy of that appellation than Johann ...
Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...
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