Programme

The course introduces to the problems and genres characterizing German literature in its two most intense periods - the second half of eighteenth century and the early twentieth century - through the reading of some classical texts and their historical-cultural contextualization.

Core Documentation

G. E. Lessing, Emilia Galotti (Einaudi).
J. W. Goethe, Werther (Einaudi).
F. Schiller I masnadieri (Mondadori)
H. von Kleist, Il principe di Homburg (Marsilio)
E.T.A. Hoffmann, L’uomo della sabbia (Mondadori)
G. Büchner, Lenz (Adelphi).
H. von Hofmannstahl, Elettra (Marsilio).
R.M. Rilke, Nuove poesie. Requiem (Einaudi).
F. Kafka, Il processo (Einaudi).
B. Brecht, L’opera da tre soldi (Einaudi).