The relationship between gesture and time is one of the most fertile vantage points from which to read the transformation of our aesthetic experience between...
There are days in the Italian Journey when Goethe wins and others when he loses. The day of 2 March 1787 he loses, at least...
Naples, March 1787. Goethe has been in the city for some ten days, and happiness is everywhere. Not the happiness of philosophers — that of...
Some pages of the Italian Journey seem marginal and are not. A handful of lines in all. An afternoon visit to a painter, a walk...
There is a precise moment when the journey changes its nature.It is not the departure from Rome — that is mere logistics, trunks and carriages....
In the Italian Journey one entry is missing. It is not missing through forgetfulness, nor through modesty. It is missing because Goethe removed it with...
Without a word to anyone, and under an assumed name, Goethe steals out of Karlsbad at three in the morning in the late summer of...
