Master Builders, A Typology of the Spirit

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Author's Note: Although the three trilogies in this volume were written during a period of twenty-five years, all were, from the very first, parts of a single plan. I was drawn to the attempt to make clear the generic characteristics of the poetic type by means of the contrasts and likenesses of each trinity of creative figures in the three books. The first series, Three Masters was intended to depict, in the life and work of three writers of different nationality - Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoeffsky - the type of the world-portraying novelist; the third series, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, treated of the self-portraitists, the masters of autobiography, in the persons of Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. Between these two books came The Struggle with the Daimon, in which I sought to describe, in Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche - as opposed to Goethe, the genius of self-preservation - the type of the self-destructive poet whose "daimon" at once drags him aloft and thrusts him down into the inner abyss. Of the three trilogies, Three Masters and Adepts in Self-Portraiture appeared in English shortly after their German Publication. The third, The Struggle with the Daimon, was held back for extrinsic reasons and now appears in English for the first time. Thus is finally brought to a close a work which, I hope, will, through the very differences of its nine characters, communicate the inner unity of its purpose: to show the eternal struggle that every artist is obliged to wage against reality for his work's sake. -- Stefan Zweig. There is a slight separation in the joint between the half title page and the title page. Otherwise book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has one 1" triangular chip at bottom edge of front panel and a few small chips at top edge of back panel. Spine of d j is a little faded. Overall, sturdy and presentable. 8vo. red cloth covered boards, blind stamped and stamped in gold. 905 pp Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. N° de ref. del artículo 845

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Título: Master Builders, A Typology of the Spirit
Editorial: Viking Press, New York
Año de publicación: 1939
Encuadernación: Encuadernación de tapa dura
Condición de la sobrecubierta: Sobrecubierta no Incluida
Edición: 1ª Edición