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Rüdiger Safranski's Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is the first definitive biography in a generation to tell the larger-than-life story of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Drawing upon the trove of letters, diaries, and notebooks Goethe left behind, as well as correspondence and criticism from Goethe's contemporaries, Safranski weaves a rich tale of Europe in the throes of revolution and of the man whose ideas heralded a new era.

Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany’s most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) gilt bis heute als der bedeutendste deutsche Dichter, seine Werke zählen zu den Höhepunkten der Weltliteratur. Obwohl er auf Drängen seines Vaters hin Rechtswissenschaften studiert, gilt seine Leidenschaft schon immer dem Schreiben. Goethes Leben ist geprägt von einem unstillbaren Hunger nach Wissen und leidenschaftlichen Verliebtheiten.