A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

ON GOETHE

Rudiger Safranski, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer (New York & London: Liveright, 2017) (From the book jacket: " Rudiger Safranski's Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is the first definitive biography in a generation to tell the larger-than-life story of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature." Also, see Michael Hofmann, "Personality Is Everything," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 6/18/2017.).