The sorrows of young Werther (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199583021 ISBN 13: 9780199583027

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2030

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In a new translation which skilfully draws attention to elements of self-imprisonments within the novella, we come to understand Goethe's desire to exorcise a part of himself. (Kristen Treen, The Observer)

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'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.'

The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish.

Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. Werther's searching introspection and the passionate intensity with which he bares his soul have an immediacy that is all the more powerful for being expressed in letters; charting the course of his emotions, they give added drama to the unfolding account. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric clarity, and his introduction and notes illuminate Goethe's achievement.
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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2030
• ISBN 10: 0199583021
• ISBN 13: 9780199583027
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160