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   Plot Summary. Elective Affinities (1809) is German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s third novel. The title is a reference to the scientific phenomenon in which types of chemicals show a preference to combine with certain substances over others. Goethe extends this idea to human attraction and compatibility to explore whether the laws of ...

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   Elective Affinities (German: Die Wahlverwandtschaften ), also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, published in 1809. Situated around the city of Weimar, the book relates the story of Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple enjoying an idyllic but somewhat mundane life on a secluded ...

   • Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   • Publish Year: 1809

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   This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Elective Affinities; by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Charlotte and Edward are a wealthy Victorian couple who have been married for a few years. They have both been married before and widowed.

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   Apr 22, 2014 · Goethe’s strange, elusive third novel, Elective Affinities. There were no best-seller lists in 1809, but it was quickly clear to the German reading public that Goethe’s third novel, Elective Affinities, which appeared in the fall of that year, was a flop. His first, The Sorrows of Young Werther, had inspired a fashion craze and copycat […]

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   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Constantine (Translator) 3.70. 11,753 ratings686 reviews. Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner.

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   Summary. Goethe’s Faust is a complex work of literature that is concerned with the place of humanity in the cosmos, the striving of its protagonist beyond his human confines, the implications of ...

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   Who wrote Elective Affinities?

   • Elective Affinities (German: Die Wahlverwandtschaften ), also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, published in 1809.

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   What is Elective Affinities about?

   • Elective Affinities captures European consciousness prior to the advent of Marxist thought. Goethe’s protagonists blithely ignore the struggles and inner lives of the servants and peasants who surround them, treating them like meatbags whose only decent purpose is to facilitate dinner parties and dig garden beds.

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   Is Elective Affinities a good book?

   • The book is neither long nor dense; its characters’ motives are not hard to fathom, its plot not difficult to follow. In fact, Elective Affinities is the rare book that opens by spelling out what will happen by its end. The protagonists, Eduard and Charlotte, are aristocrats who have overcome loveless marriages to find true love with each other.

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   What is a metaphor in the book 'The Elective Affinities'?

   • The wonder of the work for me comes from several metaphors and an internal story with also deals with the theme of relationships. The first metaphor is of die Wahlverwandtschaften or Elective Affinities, as the novel is known in English, a metaphor taken from chemistry, perhaps dating back to Alchemy.

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   Books. Elective Affinities. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Penguin UK, Feb 24, 2005 - Fiction - 320 pages. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward ...