Character, silence, and the novel: Walter Benjamin on Goethe's 'Elective Affinities'.(Critical Essay)

From: Narrative | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Leacock, N.K. | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

WALTER BENJAMIN'S 1924-25 essay on GOETHE'S Die Wahlverwandtschaften [The Elective Affinities] is widely acknowledged as "standard-setting" in the reception history of one of the most important European novels of the nineteenth century. Yet the essay "Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften" ["Goethe's Elective Affinities"] has received more thorough discussion as a work of critical theory than as a reading of a novel. (1) Recent studies of Benjamin explicate the essa...

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