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Edward Luttwak · Goethe in China · LRB 3 June 2021

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To conquer Goethe, Wei Maoping must have recruited every qualified Chinese Germanist and translator there was, with only...

Vol. 43 No. 11 · 3 June 2021 Goethe in China Edward Luttwak Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 1872 words G oethe's ​ best-known books are quite portable: both parts of Faust , Italian Journey (which points travellers in the right direction, Sicily), The Sorrows of Young Werther (with which the most disparate readers identify all too easily) and, for those of us who can declaim it in German, the sinister, compelling Erlkönig . But Goethe complete is immense: the 'collected works' in twelve volumes contain the prose and poetry, but the scientific, autobiographical,

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