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The Problematic Hero in German Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

A. B. Faust
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Extract

Among Goethe's Sprüche in Prosa we find the following maxim: “Es giebt Problematische Naturen, die keiner Lage gewachsen sind, in der sie sich befinden, und denen keine genug thut. Darum entsteht der ungeheure Widerstreit, der das Leben ohne Genuss verzehrt.”

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1901 , pp. 92 - 106
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1901

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References

Note 1 in page 95 Cf. J. E. Lowell, “Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.” Literary Essays, II, p. 248 f.

Note 1 in page 103 Bartels, Die Alten und die Jungen, p. 131.