"His works forsake him as the birds forsake the nest in which they were hatched": on art, renouncement and death in Goethe’s Elective Affinities
At the beginning of the second part of Goethe’s Elective Affinities the narrator draws a parallel between life and the stroke of art in the poet in order to replace, in an epic poem, the protagonists for figures hitherto scarcely observed, thereby justifying the increasing importance of th...
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Universidade de São Paulo
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/pg/article/view/39798 |