Hermann Und Dorothea
1797
In the autumn of 1792, as French Revolutionary armies sweep through the German Palatinate, a small town braces for the upheaval to come. Hermann, the only son of a prosperous innkeeper, has lived a sheltered life of agricultural ease. But when refugees stream through the streets, desperate and hollow-eyed, he is confronted with a choice that will define him: will he remain the dutiful son his father expects, or follow the promptings of his own heart? Dorothea emerges among the displaced, a young woman of quiet dignity who has lost everything yet refuses to surrender her humanity. What unfolds is neither a simple romance nor a war epic, but something rarer: a pastoral idyll poisoned at its roots, where the sweetness of domestic life cannot be separated from the violence reshaping Europe around it. Goethe's masterpiece in hexameter verse captures a world in transition, where the old order crumbles and individuals must decide what they owe to tradition, to country, and to love.
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“El hombre desea mucho y necesita poco, vista la brevedad de su vida.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He does not always choose the bestWho muses long.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“¿Por qué me ocultas tu corazón?””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“For he who in unsettle times is weak,Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man ought not, like a mushroom, to spring up And rot upon the ground that nourished him, Leaving no trace of life-like energy!””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Danger takes from a man all power of thought””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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