West-östlicher Divan
Korean Title: 서.동시집
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translat: Jeon Yeong- ae
Publisher: road
ISBN: 9788964452455
544 page /145 * 210 mm
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About This Book
A praise for the pure and free East.
Beautiful love poems, deep poetic reflections, and profound wisdom of life in old age.
The only book published by the poetic saint Goethe.
An ideal of world literature realized through a spiritual and imaginary journey to the Orient.
The great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is called the immortal "Saint of Poetry." However, although he wrote poetry continuously throughout his life, he published only one collection of poetry during his lifetime, "Eastern and Western Poems." Published in 1819 at the age of seventy, this collection of poetry is a work that Goethe himself put a great deal of effort into, and it vividly encapsulates the ideals of "world literature" that he advocated, in language that embodies the spiritual exchange between East and West. In this respect, Hegel praised this work as Goethe's "best and most excellent."
The 『West-Eastern Poetry Collection』 has recently been published as the second installment in Gil’s “Complete Works of Goethe” (the first being 『Faust』 published in 2019). This complete work, planned to consist of 20 volumes, is currently being translated from beginning to end into Korean by Professor Emeritus Jeon Young-ae of the Department of German Language and Literature at Seoul National University, who became the first Korean to receive the “Goethe Gold Medal,” the highest honor awarded by the German Goethe Society (2011). Furthermore, in relation to the 『West-Eastern Poetry Collection』, Professor Jeon’s 2018 “Study of Goethe’s West-Eastern Poetry Collection” became a hot topic in Germany when it was published as the 77th volume of the Weimar Goethe Society’s series.
In 1814, Goethe was deeply inspired by the poetry of the 14th-century Persian poet Hapis, which had just been published in German translation. In response, he poured out poetry like a fountain, and at the same time, he began extensive research on the Orient. This extraordinary volume, "Western and Eastern Poetry," brings together the poems and prose, often called the "Magna Carta of Oriental Studies." At a time when interest in the Orient was burgeoning in Europe (even from a Eurocentric perspective), this pioneering insight, which focused on the spiritual values of the East with an open and unbiased perspective, is a treasure trove whose value is even more renewed today, as Arab civilization is being rediscovered in earnest.
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