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The Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
German poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally recognized as a towering figure in world literature.
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660 pages
Published
August 21st 2003
by University Press of the Pacific
(first published 1811)
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رغم ميلي إلى السيرة الذاتية , كانت لي تجربة مختلفة مع هذا الكتاب , فلم يكن الكاتب يسرد وقائع حياته بشكل فارغ , بل كان يحرص على ان تحمل كل واقعة مما اختاره لنا , معنى ..
المعنى , حيث نفقده في كثير من الأعمال , عندما تتكرر الأحداث في روتين إنساني خانق .. يختفي .. بعكس هنا .
المعنى , حيث نفقده في كثير من الأعمال , عندما تتكرر الأحداث في روتين إنساني خانق .. يختفي .. بعكس هنا .
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This book was a drag...on an old cigarette...that someone else smoked...a week ago. I read 200 pages before I realized that I was begging for it to be end, or for me to run out of oxygen. Only the most die-hard fans of Goethe should read this, and THAT only if they are ready to learn in depth about the social-historical milieu of his times. Dude Goethe took about 50 pages to describe the ceremonies of the coronation of a king when he (Goethe) was a youth. He said he used to memorize and describe
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El libro no es malo como tal, pero Goethe tarda hojas y hojas en describirte cosas no tan relevantes-interesantes, datos e información que no recordarás; aun así el libro cuenta con relatos memorables, cosas interesantes para el lector común. Solo verdaderos dedicados a Goethe y curiosos sin miedo a sus 500 páginas deberían leerlo.
This I very much like because the author is not crazy like most people but just loves to write and thinksabout it. ?He also contemplates nature and such and this in a very gentle, non-egoistic way.
Mar 17, 2010
E.J. Matze
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This is a very honest person trying to make sense of the world and the sometimes impressive nature and really thinking about it (loves to write).
Excellent autobiography, goethe provides the story for a great artist who is neither in great pain or dire straights. Well written and fun
Big desert, few oases. Hard to believe the author of Faust could write a book as unrelentingly tedious as this one.
Look for another English language edition of Dichtung und Wahrheit. The translation was painful to read.
waduh teuing tah beres na iraha...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama
Faust
. Goethe's other well-known literary works include h
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