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Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.
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Prefatory Note ix Introduction I Conversations of German Refugees 13 The Fairy Tale 70 Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants, 93 BOOK ONE Chapter One 97 The Flight into Egypt 97 Chapter Two 101 Saint Joseph the Second 101 The Visitation 106 The Lily Stalk 109 Chapter Three 112 Chapter Four 116 Chapter Five 126 The Deranged Pilgrim 128 Chapter Six 138 Chapter Seven 148 Chapter Eight 153 Who Is the Traitor? 153 Chapter Nine 164 Chapter Ten 174 Chapter Eleven 184 The Nut-brown Maid 184 Chapter Twelve 195 BOOK TWO Chapter One 199 Chapter Two 206 Chapter Three 212 The Man of Fifty Years 212 Chapter Four 227 Chapter Five 237 Chapter Six 253 Chapter Seven 254 Chapter Eight 267 Chapter Nine 277 Chapter Ten 281 Chapter Eleven 284 REFLECTIONS IN THE SPIRIT OF THE WANDERERS: ART, ETHICS, NATURE 294 BOOK THREE Chapter One 313 Chapter Two 319 Chapter Three 321 Chapter Four 330 Chapter Five 332 Chapter Six 342 The New Melusine 343 Chapter Seven 358 Chapter Eight 359 The Perilous Wager 360 Chapter Nine 363 Chapter Ten 369 Not Too Far 370 Chapter Eleven 378 Chapter Twelve 381 Chapter Thirteen 385 Chapter Fourteen 400 Chapter Fifteen 409 Chapter Sixteen 412 Chapter Seventeen 414 Chapter Eighteen 416 FROM MAKARIE'S ARCHIVES 417 Notes 437
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.
Zusammenfassung
Includes "Conversations of German Refugees" and "Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years".
