Enrico di Ofterdingen

A very strange book that evokes a dream like state...a time when you wake up and have slept so long you are not sure if it is dawn or dusk; suspended between the two you try to find your way - only to find that you are being pulled deeper and deeper into a world where your frames of reference are no Leggi tutto

Da moram jedno delo da odaberem da bih pokazao šta je srž romantizma, ovo bi bio izbor. Novalisovi panteizam, pankalizam i panpoetizam, toliko su mi bliski i ushićujući, da bih istovremeno vikao da što više ljudi, što pre dođe do njega, ali i ljubomorno čuvao da slučajno ne postane previše prisutan Leggi tutto

“Matilde —dijo Enrique, después de un largo beso—, me parece un sueño que seas mía; pero lo que todavía me parece más extraordinario es que no lo hayas sido siempre.” “Sí, donde tú estés, Matilde, estaré yo eternamente.” “No comprendo lo que pueda ser la eternidad, pero diría que la eternidad debe de Leggi tutto

Astralis “.. Who yieldeth himself to love's deep madness, From its wounds is never free. .... The world a grave becometh, Keeping The heart, like ashes in an urn.” "In the art of poetry, on the contrary, there is nothing tangible to be met with. It creates nothing with tools and hands. The eye and the ear pe Leggi tutto

I'm not sure why this was marked as one of the 1001 books I must read before I die. The author himself died before he finished it. He may be a fine example of German Romanticism, but he's no Goethe. And I'm not even sure I like Goethe all that much. The only thing good I can say about this is that i Leggi tutto