Sunday, August 15, 2021

 

What an Age!

Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann, June 27, 1831 (Goethe speaking about Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris; tr. John Oxenford):
It is the most abominable book that ever was written! .... But what an age it must be which not only renders such a book possible, and calls it into existence, but even finds it endurable and delightful.

Es ist das abscheulichste Buch, das je geschrieben worden! .... Was ist das aber für eine Zeit, die ein solches Buch nicht allein möglich macht und hervorruft, sondern es sogar ganz erträglich und ergötzlich findet!



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