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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. . .These discussions our two speculators carried on between them to considerable length: at last they parted without seeming to have wrought any special conviction in each other, but engaging to meet at an appointed place next day.

Wilhelm walked up and down the streets for a time: he heard a sound of clarinets, hunting-horns, and bassoons; it swelled his bosom with delightful feelings. It was some travelling showmen that produced this pleasant music. He spoke with them: for a piece of coin they followed[71] him to Mariana's house. The space in front of the door was adorned with lofty trees; under them he placed his artists; and, himself resting on a bench at some distance, he surrendered his mind without restraint to the hovering tones which floated round him in the cool mellow night. Stretched out beneath the kind stars, he felt his existence like a golden dream. "She, too, hears these flutes," said he within his heart: "she feels whose remembrance, whose love of . . . Read More

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I wouldn't have thought about reading Goethe if we hadn't been sitting in the rain last November talking about Nietzsche, and we wouldn't have been talking about Nietzsche if Helen hadn't been trying to explain Steiner to me for the hundredth time, and she wouldn't have been trying to explain Steine

Ben Jonson, observing that certain actors credited his rival, Shakespeare, with never blotting out a word of his writing, retorted "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, from a modern perspective,would benefit from easily ten times that many deletions.

Clearly this i

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German Version:

Großer Klassiker, aber nicht wirklich mein Geschmack!

Gesamt: 2,5.

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English version:

Great classic, but not really my taste!

Overall: 2.5.

I’ve read most of Goethe's major work at this point, and I’ve not found a single one of them to be completely satisfying. There is always too much of something or not enough of something, and this book is no exception.

I daresay most modern readers will find this work problematic. On the levels of c

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