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Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Paperback

Series: Landmarks of World Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521316995
ISBN13: 9780521316996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 26 1987
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all efforts, it has remained firmly on the periphery. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers usually rendered as 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. Werther was an extraordinary and immediate bestseller both in Germany and abroad.

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