Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portrait--a complex study of Goethe and of Lotte, the still-vivacious woman who in her youth was the model for Charlotte in Goethe's widely-read The Sorrows of Young Werther. Lotte's thoughts, as she anticipates meeting Goethe again after forty years, and her conversations with those in Weimar who knew the great man, allow Mann to assess Goethe's genius from many points of view. Hayden White's fresh appraisal of the novel reveals its consonances with our own concerns.
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2015-11-23
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Jag läste den på svenska, men hittar inte den svenska versionen här.
Den här boken kändes riktigt seg... en massa prat som kändes ointressant, alldeles för mycket dialog och när boken väl kom till det väntade var det helt ok, men inte tillräckligt fantastiskt för att jag skulle känna att det var värt den imaginära tegelstenen dessförinnan.
