Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788027306770)

Wilhelm Meister- the hero of the story - undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centres upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the mysterious Tower Society. Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or His Travels - Consisting largely of discrete short stories and novellas woven together with elements of the epistolary novel, lengthy sections of aphorisms, and several interspersed poems, the sequel is a treat to read A major theme running through the various parts of the novel is that of "Entsagung," translatable as "renunciation." The most famous section of the novel is probably the episode in which the protagonist and his son Felix visit the "Pedagogical Province."

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
ISBN-10: 8027306779
ISBN-13: 9788027306770
Publisher: E-Artnow
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2020
Pages: 606
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.22d