Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
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On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
On the composer, writer, and artist E. T. A. Hoffmann.
The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
On Friedrich Schiller’s “Das Lied von der Glocke.”
Reconsidering the literary relevance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
On the mania shared between the Bohemian writer and the German novel.
A reflection on the early joys of the written word.
On the difficulties of translation.
Translated with an introduction by Martin Greenberg.