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Article: The formula of self-formation: Bildung and vospitanie in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Gorky's Mother.
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- Germano-Slavica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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"Let me put it quite succinctly: even as a youth I had the
vague desire and intention to develop myself fully, myself
as I am."--Wilhelm Meister from Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship
"It is another life. All of you ... are also side by side.
Suddenly people have become kin--I understand all-the
words I don't understand; but everything else I
understand, everything!"--Pelagueya Nilovna
from Mother
The quotes above taken from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796) and Gorky's Mother (1906) reflect pregnant moments in the respective processes of self-formation depicted in these works. In their statements, both Wilhelm Meister ...