Lives and Deaths of Werther

Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia

AvJohannes Kaminski

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, first published in 1774, has produced a global echo that rivals contemporary bestsellers. While in the German context, the book was always outshined by its famous author, patriotic writers in Italy and China saw their lives mirrored in Werther's struggle, inspiring them to rewrite Goethe's novel in revolutionary terms. Meanwhile, French Romantics embraced Werther's expressive language to explore the dark corners of their souls. The same happened in Japan, where modernists invoked the text to show that 'the most beautiful moment of life – that is, love – blossoms in the proximity of death.' Kaminski investigates how interpretations, translations, and literary adaptations of Goethe's novel have manipulated the text in ways that left deep marks on world literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:British Academy Monographs
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780197267554

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Mer om författaren

Dr Johannes Kaminski is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2011 and has held research posts at the University of Cambridge, Taipei, Vienna, and Comenius University Bratislava. As a scholar of comparative literature, Kaminski's research is focused on the literature of Goethezeit, Chinese modernism, and contemporary science-fiction.

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Lives and Deaths of Werther is an impressive piece of comparative literary scholarship. Working with and translating original texts in German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese, Kaminski explores how, through what he terms literary embedded "grafting", critical and creative responses to Goethe's novel embedded the the mutable Werther in world literary culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1: Joys and Sorrows of Interpretation2: The Translator, Translated3: Revolutionary Afterlives4: Thanatological RevenantsClosing RemarksBibliography