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- handle: 10670/1.jmf1ti
- isbn: 9781783743933
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Karl S. Guthke, « 5. Opening Goethe’s Weimar to the World: Travellers from Great Britain and America », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.jmf1ti
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A Cultural Institution: The Travelling Englishman in Goethe’s Weimar As Goethe lay dying, his speech failed him; to communicate his last words and possibly his legacy, he raised his right hand and “wrote” words in the air – indecipherable, alas, except for one letter: W. Speculation about the meaning of this W has been a minor cottage industry ever since. The word so rudely truncated by the Grim Reaper – was it Wolfgang? Or Weimar? Or was Professor Richard Friedenthal clairvoyant when he gues...