Download or read book Mignon's Afterlives written by Terence Cave and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.