Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and humanities at Birkbeck College, London. One of her ten top novels and stories by philosophers, as shared at the Guardian:Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRead about the other entries on the list.
...Goethe is an immensity: a poet, an administrator, a statesman, a playwright, short story writer and a novelist. He is impelled by a philosophical vision that suffuses his literary writings as much as his natural-philosophical experiments in colour theory and optics, botany and evolution. This novel integrates his various interests in its exploration of human chemistry and its attractions, repulsions, affinities and reactions.
--Marshal Zeringue
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