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Book reviews: The Man Of Fifty: Emotional tangle of a mid-life crisis before its time
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20041121
Author:Andrew Crumey
The Man Of Fifty
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hesperus, GBP 6.99
IN AN introduction to Andrew Piper's new translation of this short novella by Germany's greatest writer, AS Byatt calls it "cool, almost dispassionate", with an "off-putting coldness in its moral machinery". Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Byatt's comments, however, remind us just what it is about Goethe's prose that is so admirable, and still so much worth reading. Long before the term 'mid-life crisis' was coined, Goethe had one. Weimar's court poet found his eyes and fingers wandering, so that his long-term partner ...
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