Description Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possibility of spontaneous passion.
He is Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society, and was for the Australian academic year 1991 Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Melbourne..
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He has also translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, E.
Hollingdale has translated eleven of Nietzsche\'s books and published two books about him.
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Goethe completed Faust in 1832, just before he died.
He also directed the State Theatre and worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany, anatomy and color.
During this late period he finished his series of Wilhelm Master books and wrote many other works, including The Oriental Divan (1819).
In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpius.
Returning to Weimar, Goethe started the second part of Faust , encouraged by Schiller.
Iphigenia in Tauris and Torquato Tasso , classical dramas, were written at this time.
His interest in the classical world led him to leave suddenly for Italy in 1786 and the Italian Journey recounts his travels there.
Goethe began work on Faust , and Egmont , another tragedy before being invited to join the government of Weimar.
This was followed by the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774, which was an even greater success.
He produced some essays and lyrical verse, and at twenty-two wrote Götz von Berlichingen , a play which brought him national fame and established him in the current Sturm und Drang movement.
He studied at Leipzig, where he showed interest in the occult, and at Strassburg, where Herder introduced him to Shakespeare\'s works and to folk poetry.
About the Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1749.
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Description Condemned as immoral when it was first published, this novel reflects the conflict Goethe felt between his respect for the conventions of marriage and the possibility of spontaneous passion
