The Room 102 “Classics”

Johann Volvgan Gettee — the German writer, the founder of the German literature of a New time, a thinker and naturalist, honourable member Petersburg áN, — commencements with insurgence of “Storm and rush” and the sentimental novel “Sufferings of young Verter”.

Through the period so-called Weimar classicism, penetrated by spontaneous materialism of antiquity, marked antifeudal and tyrant fighting by the tendencies, Gettee went to realistic comprehension of problems of art creativity, mutual relation of the man and society, pantheistical pleasure by completeness of vital experiences.

Gettee’s creativity reflected the major tendencies and contradictions of the epoch. In the final philosophical composition tragedy “Faust” (1808-32), sated by scientific idea of the time, Gettee embodied searches of sense of life, finding it in the act.

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