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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Paperback
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9780486424552
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Oct 29 2002
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
One of the world's first bestsellers, this tragic masterpiece attained an instant and lasting success upon its 1774 publication, catapulting the author to the forefront of the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang. A burst of parodies, operas, poems, and plays based on The Sorrows of Young Werther rapidly ensued, along with the cultlike following of young romantics across Europe who affected the manner of the novel's passionate and self-destructive hero.
Werther appeared to seize the hearts of men in all quarters of the world, and to utter for them the word which they had long been waiting to hear, observed the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. Indeed, Goethe's portrayal of Zerrissenheit, the state of being torn apart, in which a character struggles to reconcile his artistic sensibilities with the demands of the objective world, proved tremendously influential to subsequent writers, and The Sorrows of Young Werther continues to speak to modern readers.
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