Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Narrated by Leighton Pugh
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About this audiobook
Disdaining to follow his father's advice to pursue a bourgeois life in business and disappointed in love, Wilhelm Meister searches for a more fulfilling path - and is initially drawn to the arts.
He becomes involved in a theatre troupe, the works of Shakespeare and specifically Hamlet beckon. But his artistic life is interrupted when mundane brutality in the form of an attack by bandits intrudes. Wilhelm, despite being wounded, survives the encounter, which leads him to another level of understanding, and his personal journey to maturity continues.
The novel was hugely influential throughout the 19th century and beyond and remains a key work in classic European literature. Thomas Carlyle's admired but slightly archaic translation has been lightly revised for this recording which features a sensitive reading by Leighton Pugh.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
<p>Johann Wolfgang Goethe, hijo de una familia de la alta burguesía, nació en Francfort en 1749, y murió en Weimar en 1832, universalmente reconocido y admirado. Entre una fecha y otra no sólo se extienden dos grandes revoluciones históricas, sino que la Ilustración, a través del <i>Sturm und Drang</i> y del clasicismo, ha dado paso al Romanticismo, que marcará el rumbo del hombre moderno. La vida de Goethe no se limitó a ser un reflejo privilegiado de todas estas conmociones, sino que participó activamente en casi todas ellas. Su novela de juventud <i>Las penas del joven Werther</i> (1774) causó sensación en toda Europa. En 1775 se estableció como consejero del duque Karl August en Weimar, ciudad que ya sólo abandonaría ocasionalmente. Un viaje a Italia (1786-88), durante el cual versificó su <i>Ifigenia en Táuride</i> (1787), y la amistad con Schiller moderaron su ímpetu juvenil, asentando el ideal humanista.</p> <p>Del clasicismo de Weimar que constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana. Pero su curiosidad abarcó también la geología, la biología, la botánica, la anatomía y la mineralogía, como se ve en obras como <i>La metamorfosis de las plantas</i> (1790) o <i>Teoría de los colores</i> (1810). Su obra maestra en dos partes, <i>Fausto</i> (1772-1831), aglutina espléndidamente todas las etapas de su carrera. En <i>Poesía y verdad</i> (1811-1830) dejó testimonio de su juventud. Alba ha publicado también, a modo de crónica de su vejez, <i>El hombre de cincuenta años / Elegía de Marienbad</i> (1807; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LVI) y la narración bocacciana <i>Conversaciones de emigrados alemanes</i> (1795; ALBA CLÁSICA núm.- LXXXV).</p>
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