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4.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Autobiography, boring anyway,
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This review is from: From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4) (Paperback)
Goethe is a bit like broccoli--one should like him better than one actually does. Goethe goes to great lengths to credit everyone who helped him become the most important German author ever. It moves at a very slow pace. It also is somewhat self-deceptive and misleading, as it ends when Goethe was in his late 20's. In order to get a more accurate view of Goethe's life, Dichtung and Wahrheit is best read in conjunction with a traditional biography. Goethe's autobiography appears in 4 parts, and this volume consists of the first 3, which were written earlier, and it is more thorough than the 4th part that appears in volume 5 of this series. Anyone seriously interested in studying autobiography as a genre should read it, even if it is slow going.
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From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Paperback - October 31, 1994)
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