- Paperback: 133 pages
- Publisher: City Lights Publishers; 2 edition (Jan 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872863638
- ISBN-13: 978-0872863637
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.9 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #751,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began to study hermetic literature. This exploration had a huge impact on the early aesthetic education of Europe’s great man of letters, the last renaissance titan. In the years that followed, Goethe immersed himself in the hermetic tradition, and even set up an alchemic laboratory and attempted to make an elixir of immortality. Although he eventually gave up his alchemical experiments, he was to believe in the validity of the Great Work for the rest of his life.
Alchemic symbolism is prominent in many of Goethe’s works, and it is particularly abundant in the tales of self-mastery and transformation presented in this collection. Included here are new translations of “Fairy Tale” (“Märchen”), Goethe’s alchemical allegory; “The Counselor” and “The New Melusina,” stories of temptation and the tests of love; “The Good Woman,” a curious discourse on aesthetics and the rights of women; and the lyrical prose masterpiece “Novelle.” Here also for the first time in English is “The Magical Flute,” Goethe’s sequel to Mozart’s opera, with themes of initiation, the magical power of music, and liberated genius.
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A Luminous Collection, Jun 9 2010
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City Lights publishers are to commended for including in one volume all of Goethe's esoteric short fiction. Including his well known marchen 'The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily' which remains one of the symbolic enigmas of world literature. Included is the 'New Melusina' a lesser known romantic fairy tale that lingers in the memory long after reading. Goethe's take on Mozart's Masonic inspired 'Magic Flute' is fascinating and available to the casual reader for the first time.Though this collection is dedicated to his short prose works, if Goethe's unfinished poem 'The Mysteries' were included one would have an essential collection of his key illuminist writings outside of 'Faust'. Any time spent reading Goethe is an edifying experience.
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