Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe

TONG Ming

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

Volume 5 Issue 2

Jun. 2022

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TONG Ming. Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 28-38. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

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TONG Ming. Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 28-38. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

TONG Ming. Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 28-38. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

Citation:

TONG Ming. Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 28-38. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

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Mu Xin's Tribute to Goethe

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225202

TONG Ming^,

Xi'an Fanyi University;California State University, Los Angeles

Received Date: 2022-03-12
Accepted Date: 2022-05-31

Abstract

Abstract

Mu Xin 木心(1927-2011) is a writer who constantly innovates by drawing on discourses and images of globality on an aesthetic scale. Through his flexible, ever changing touches, we see his extremely diversified visions of interest and unrestricted, superb writing style."Weimar in Early Spring," a prose poem, is Mu Xin's tribute to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and to the divine correspondence between human creativity and nature's creativity, which is a Goethean theme. The article briefly reviews Goethe's Faust and The Metamorphosis of Plants to explore Goethe's reflections on modernization and his philosophy of nature, which organically integrates his artistic sensibility and scientific sensibility. With the review of Goethe as a comparative foundation, the article further provides a detailed explication of "Weimar in Early Spring," with emphasis on its symmetrically balanced form, its cultivated whispering power, and the sacred aura of nature that celebrates a profound view of art as embodied by Goethe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
- Mu Xin,
- Faust,
- The Metamorphosis of Plants,
- “Weimar in Early Spring”,
- prose poetry

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