Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens

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«Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens», by Johann Peter Eckermann, is the conversations work (dtv, 925 p., paperback, German).

Johann Peter Eckermann met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last years of the poet's life and left a written record of these encounters. This volume brings together those conversations and offers a close, personal view of Goethe's ideas, opinions, and daily routine in his old age.

Published in 1976 by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in the dtv-bibliothek series. Thin-paper edition (Dünndruck), with an introduction by Ernst Beutler.

Will appeal to readers of German literature and philosophy and to those wishing to approach Goethe's thought through direct testimony.