{"product_id":"goethe-life-as-a-work-of-art-9781631494895","title":"Goethe: Life as a Work of Art","description":"A masterful intellectual portrait, \u003cem\u003eGoethe: Life as a Work of Art\u003c\/em\u003e is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and--as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes--a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel \u003cem\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/em\u003e. Safranski has scoured Goethe's entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a \"fresh and authentic\" (\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending \"artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings\" of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, \"[Safranski's] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy\" of a monumental legacy (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe's greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSafranski, Rüdiger:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRüdiger Safranski\u003c\/strong\u003e is a German philosopher and writer, and the author of biographies of Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. He lives in Berlin.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDollenmayer, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dollenmayer\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and translates German fiction and nonfiction.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50422015656210,"sku":"9781631494895","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e689eaff-431c-448c-9f1c-d4c38fc36a27.jpg?v=1729520233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goethe-life-as-a-work-of-art-9781631494895","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}