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Walter Benjamin's essay on The Elective Affinities. This essay by Walter Benjamin, written around 1920-21, was described by Austrian critic Hugo von Hoffmannsthal as "absolutely incomparable". It is renowned as an exemplary instance of Benjamin subjecting his literary subject matter to a process of intensive dialectical mediation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1809
Walter Benjamin's 1924-25 essay on Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften [The Elective Affinities] is widely acknowledged as "standard-setting" in the reception history of one of the most important European novels of the nineteenth century.
Mar 15, 2007 · Elective affinities : a novel : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
May 30, 2004 · The volume includes a number of his most important works, including “Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin,” “Goethe’s Elective Affinities,” “The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism,” “The Task of the Translator,” and “One Way Street.”
This chapter conducts a detailed investigation of what is considered the culmination of Benjamin’s early literary criticism, specifically, his essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities that was published in 1924–1925.
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Elective Affinities: Berlin and Heidelberg, 1920– 1922. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life . Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, pp. 117-176.
