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COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association
Der Wanderer: Goethe in Italien. By NORBERT MILLER. Munich: Hanser. 2002. 731 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 3-446-19876-8 (hbk).
In April 1787 Goethe visited the ruins of the massive unfinished temple of Segesta, an ancient Sicilian town founded, according to legend, by the Trojan followers of Aeneas. In Palermo, Goethe had discovered that the Homeric dream could still be dreamt in the world of nature; would the architectural remains also yield the memory of past splendour? Like the better-known example of the visit to Paestum, the account of Segesta written on 20 April is a complex one, mixing 'wie es eigentlich gewesen' with a deeply subjective response; and, according to Norbert Miller, it demonstrates Goethe's failure to...
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