Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle - Couverture rigide

Norton, Robert E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801433541 ISBN 13 : 9780801433542

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of literature. Particularly during his last three decades, George gathered around himself a group of men who subscribed to his homoerotic and idiosyncratic vision of life and sought to transform that vision into reality. George considered his circle to be the embodiment and defender of the "real" but "secret" Germany, opposed to the false values of contemporary bourgeois society. Some of his disciples, friends, and admirers were themselves historians, philosophers, and poets. Their works profoundly affected the intellectual and cultural attitudes of Germany's elite during the critical postwar years of the Weimar Republic. Essentially conservative in temperament and outlook, George and his circle occupy a central, but problematic, place in the rise of proto-fascism in Germany. Their own surrogate state offered a miniature model of a future German state: enthusiastic followers submitting themselves without question to the figure and will of a charismatic leader believed to be in possession of mysterious, even quasi-divine, powers.When he died several months after the Nazi takeover, George was one of the most famous and revered figures in Germany. Today the importance of George and his circle has largely been forgotten. In this, the first full biography of George to appear in any language, Robert E. Norton traces the poet's life and rise to fame.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert E. Norton is Professor and Chair of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle and The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century, both from Cornell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801433541
• ISBN 13: 9780801433542
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 880
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible