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Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften

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From: Goethe Yearbook
Date: 20080101
Author:Gurganus, Albert E

Und doch bei aller Unvollständigkeit des Literarwesens flnden wir tausendfältige Wiederholung, woraus hervorgeht, wie beschränkt des Menschen Geist und Schicksal sei.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maximen und Reflexionen

IN THE TENTH CHAPTER OF THE SECOND PART of Die Wahlverwandtschaften Goethe inserts the novella "Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder,"1 an intriguing puzzle whose solution elucidates his moral and lends added unity to the work Thomas Mann deems "de[n] kühnsten und tiefsten Ehebruchsroma[n], den die moralische Kultur des Abendlandes hervorgebracht hat."2 The novella must be ...

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