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<p><p><b>elective Affinities</b> 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.</p><h3>the Barnes & Noble Review</h3><p>when Andr&eacute; Gide Was Asked To Name The Greatest French Poet, He Reportedly Answered, Victor Hugo, Alas. In Like Spirit, The Greatest German Novel Before The 20th Century Is Probably Goethe's <em>elective Affinities, </em> Alas. <br><br> Alas, Mainly Because There Is So Little Competition. Truth Be Told, German Prose Literature Really Excels In Short Stories And Novellas. The 19th Century Alone Boasts Such Masterpieces As Ludwig Tieck's The Elves, The Grimm Fairy Tales, E.t.a. Hoffmann's The Golden Pot And The Sandman, Heinrich Von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas And The Marquise Of O, And Theodor Storm's The Rider On The White

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Author

with an introduction by R. J. Hollingdale

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140442427

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.75 / 5 (201 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14