Goethes Faust, Vol. 1: The First Part (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

 
9780666002112: Goethes Faust, Vol. 1: The First Part (Classic Reprint)

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According to my conceptions the one great purpose of the editor's notes to a classic should be to help the reader enter more perfectly than he otherwise might into the thought and feeling of the author. Philological lore which would have been news to the author and does not contribute to a proper understanding of the author's meaning, is, in general, out of place and entitled to no better name than pedantry. The rule is, however, subject to this limitation peiarities of diction, which pertain to the author's individual style (the style is the man), may properly be made the subject of brief philological comment for the purpose of giving the reader, so far as may be, the author's exact point of w.

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ISBN 10 :  1333918518 ISBN 13 :  9781333918514
Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018
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