JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a novelist, poet,
playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wrote The Sorrows of
Young Werther when he was just twenty-four. His enduring dramatic
poem "Faust" took fifty-seven years to write and was published in
its entirety only after Goethe's death at eighty-three.
BURTON PIKE is professor emeritus of comparative literature at CUNY
Graduate Center. A leading critic, scholar, and translator of
German literature, he has written and edited books on Robert Musil,
Thomas Mann, and many others, and was the editor and co-translator
of Musil's The Man With-out Qualities.
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