David Luke Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Drawn from German folklore, dark, fantastical fairy tales of wicked deeds, gruesome punishment and just rewards.

Making his way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, Mozart playfully tries to steal an orange from a family garden but he is caught. Soon, he finds himself forgiven and welcomed by the family, and when they reveal it is their daughter's wedding, there can only be one guest of honour - Mozart himself.

'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!' Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical metres in homage to abcient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary' , supressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is unusually combined with its morality. Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alonjgside the German orginals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development. This edition also includes an introduction and notes placing the poems in the context of the poet's life and times.

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but aging writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumors that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city. Available exclusively from Vintage Classics.

Goethe písal viac ako 60 rokov na svojom Faustovi a nazval „tieto veľmi vážne žarty“ na konci svojím „hlavným zamestnaním“. Vzniklo jedno z najúžasnejších a zároveň najkomplexnejších diel svetovej literatúry, interpretované ako tragédia ľudstva, ako náboženské tajomstvo, ale aj, najmä v druhom diele, ako priam prorocké varovanie pred nebezpečenstvami moderných hospodárskych procesov. Dielo sa zaoberá hlbokými témami, ako sú morálne dilemy, hľadanie poznania a zmyslu života, a skúma vzťah medzi človekom a nadprirodzenom. Faustova cesta je plná symboliky a filozofických úvah, pričom sa zaoberá otázkami existencie, ambície a duchovného naplnenia. Dielo je známe svojou poetickou hĺbkou a zložitou štruktúrou, ktorá ponúka čitateľom množstvo podnetov na zamyslenie o ľudskej prirodzenosti a spoločenských hodnotách.

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