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Elective Affinities

(Penguin Classics)

By Goethe, R. J. Hollingdale (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780140442427

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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
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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.

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  • Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    The 19th-century scientific term for the chemical attraction of certain substances to each other above others makes for an unlikely title for a Romantic novella, or so it would seem. But Johann Wolfgang Goethe's classic work uses the chemical metapho ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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