Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 184 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
A Novel
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 184 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-955533-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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. He remained an uneasy and scandalous figure, none the less, and readers of Elective Affinities were profoundly disturbed by its penetrating study of marriage and passion.