Decoding Goethe and His Age, Vol. 2

In this second volume, the author continues the

proverbial "red thread" running through Goethe's

oeuvre comprising his personal relationships-with

men and boys. They provide the impetus and energy,

the fabric and pattern for each and every one of his

major works. His writing entails a continuous process

of re-iterating, re-living, re-evaluating, re-contextualising

his personal experiences, thereby eternalising it-and

with it, himself. Goethe is the monument of a universal

force he chiselled into words.