Goethe, Volume 10: Conversations of German Refugees--Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane K. Brown, Jan van Heurck, Krishna Winston

Overview

Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691043456
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	11/05/1995
Series:	Goethe's Collected Works , #10
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note ix

Introduction I

Conversations of German Refugees 13

The Fairy Tale 70

Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants, 93

BOOK ONE

Chapter One 97

The Flight into Egypt 97

Chapter Two 101

Saint Joseph the Second 101

The Visitation 106

The Lily Stalk 109

Chapter Three 112

Chapter Four 116

Chapter Five 126

The Deranged Pilgrim 128

Chapter Six 138

Chapter Seven 148

Chapter Eight 153

Who Is the Traitor? 153

Chapter Nine 164

Chapter Ten 174

Chapter Eleven 184

The Nut-brown Maid 184

Chapter Twelve 195

BOOK TWO

Chapter One 199

Chapter Two 206

Chapter Three 212

The Man of Fifty Years 212

Chapter Four 227

Chapter Five 237

Chapter Six 253

Chapter Seven 254

Chapter Eight 267

Chapter Nine 277

Chapter Ten 281

Chapter Eleven 284

REFLECTIONS IN THE SPIRIT OF THE WANDERERS: ART, ETHICS, NATURE 294

BOOK THREE

Chapter One 313

Chapter Two 319

Chapter Three 321

Chapter Four 330

Chapter Five 332

Chapter Six 342

The New Melusine 343

Chapter Seven 358

Chapter Eight 359

The Perilous Wager 360

Chapter Nine 363

Chapter Ten 369

Not Too Far 370

Chapter Eleven 378

Chapter Twelve 381

Chapter Thirteen 385

Chapter Fourteen 400

Chapter Fifteen 409

Chapter Sixteen 412

Chapter Seventeen 414

Chapter Eighteen 416

FROM MAKARIE'S ARCHIVES 417

Notes 437