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The Man without Predicates

Michael Wood

Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams

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Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.

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At the Movies · Bergman and Antonioni

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Impossible Wishes · Thomas Mann

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