by Johann Wolfgang Goethe · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788881833023
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«Le affinità elettive» is the novel by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (221 pages, in Italian).
The story follows four main characters and uses the metaphor of chemical affinities to explore their attractions and rejections. Goethe thus poses a conflict between love, duty and individual freedom within a marriage, and sets it in a nineteenth-century aristocratic society that is beginning to crumble.
Originally published in 1809 under the title Die Wahlverwandtschaften; this Italian edition, translated by Luca Crescenzi, belongs to the Biblioteca economica Newton collection.
For readers of European classics and nineteenth-century novels, with an interest in the social and moral conflicts of German literature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.
