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Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive. ** Review 'as a study of marital relations and adultery it is strangely topical, with a pitiless psychological insight which is close to Laclos and the French school' Brian Fallon, Irish Times 'David Constantine has struck a readable tone that sets the novel in its time without pastiche. Thanks to the fluidity of Constantine's prose, Goethe's story succeeds .... in fascinating and moving us. Constantine has caught the crispness of Goethe's descriptive language. ' Albert Manguel, Observer '... superbly translated' Nicholas Boyle Journal of European Studies, XXIV (1994) About the Author David Constantine is a Fellow in German at The Queen's College, Oxford. He is a poet (publish

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Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; David Constantine

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192837769

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.75 / 5 (3,189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14