- Taschenbuch: 96 Seiten
- Verlag: DOVER PUBN INC; Auflage: Dover.
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0486424553
- ISBN-13: 978-0486424552
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Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe gave himself a rite of passage by writing this book. He was suffering from a great deal of emotional confusion at the time, and the story served as a catharsis to expunge what he felt were unhealthy aspects of emotionality in his personality. The story is popularly classified as Romanticism because of it's rich organic imagery and overwhelming emotional tone. Goethe never thought or referred to himself as a Romantic. In his later years, he viewed Werther as a stage of life in which he had undergone a sort of transformation that aided him in leaving his adolescence behind. The story of Werther that unfolds through his letters is a lucid description of the strong subjective nature of restless emotionality characteristic of a youthful stage in life. The significance of what Goethe captures in this novel is how clearly it demonstrates, in an archetypal manner, the transgressive and oppressive nature of the emotions when fixated at immature levels of masculinity. The story is absorbing and beautiful, and made all the more remarkable by the fact that Goethe wrote it at age 24! I will never forget this book. If you want to read Goethe this is the place to start!
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It may be difficult for contemporary readers to understand why, after reading "The Sufferings of Young Werther", so many young German men of Goethe's time killed themselves. Not only did they kill themselves but also they dressed in the same clothing that Werther wears when he takes his own life. Clearly they identified with Werther and it is incumbent upon us to understand why.
For those of you who are not familiar with the story, Werther is a youthful German gentleman at the dawn of his civil service career. Unlike his contemporaries, Werther is awkward, socially clumsy, and extremely sensitive. He is also desperately in love with a woman named Charlotte (Lotte) whose feelings toward Werther are not mutual. After Lotte rejects him, Werther goes to a party where he is publicly humiliated. This being more than Werther can bear, he returns home and kills himself with a pistol.
Werther's suicide is more than a response to Lotte's rejection. In a sense it is a disavowal of the society he lives in. Werther's emotions and sensitivity make him something of an oddball among his peers who ultimately scorn and reject him. At the end of the story, Werther is not only heart-broken but also isolated.
Some reviewers have drawn interesting comparisons between Werther and other romantic heroes such as Heathcliffe. The comparison that interests me the most is the one between Werther and Pechorin, the notorious protagonist of Lermantov's "A Hero of Our Times". Unlike Werther, Pechorin is a man of action who isn't rejected by women or society but who ultimately rejects them. Pechorin does not kill himself directly, but he leads a life-style, replete with adventures and duels that ultimately results in his destruction. Both characters essentially feel that they have no place in the world they live in and each orchestrates his own destruction.
In a sense, Werther and company are predecessors of existentialist anti-heroes such as Merseault, the taciturn narrator in "The Stranger". They may also be the precursors of more contemporary figures such as Jim Morrison, Janice Joplyn and Kurt Kobein. If literature reveals a trend of alienation and self-annihilation in the western world during the past two hundred years, then we ought to ask ourselves why it occurs. Perhaps as the world grows more organized, technical, and full of protocol it requires an increasingly larger degree of conformity. Cooperation and team-work demand the removal of individual impulses. If one can't love or can't act outside of public requirements then one has few alternatives left. When critics complained to Goethe about the copycat Werther suicides, he responded that if the commercial system killed so many young men, then couldn't Werther have a few. Suicide, like so many other extreme acts of destruction, isn't the solution to rejection, loss, and alienation, but it is certainly a symptom that is difficult to ignore.
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We tend to think of our era as unique when we descry the impact that the media has on our young people's behavior. Well the same thing happened 200 years ago when this book was first published. Impressionable young readers who identified so completely with Werther went out and committed suicide by the droves. Werther is the prototypical Romantic male, who "feels" more deeply than the rest of humanity. Unlike Heathcliffe, who settles on revenge as an answer to his thwarted designs, Werther takes it out on himself. Of course, there's a great deal of self-destruction at work in Heathcliffe's persona too. I would recommend this to a reader who is just getting to know Goethe. I read it when I was about eighteen and it definitely struck a nerve with me at that time. It made me want to read everything by Goethe I could find in translation. Read it, and if you like it, as I am sure you will, go on to Goethe's two great Romantic novels, Elective Affinities and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. I found in my earlier readings that I never went wrong with what used to be referred to as Penguin Classics (now Vintage) translations. They're normally all top-notch, whether Greek, Latin, French, German, Russian, etc. PS: If you're a young reader, please don't take Werther too much to heart. It's only a novel, ok?
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Amazing
I was introduced to Goethe in college through Werther; I am now a huge fan. This book is one of the most amazing stories ever told. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. April 2000 veröffentlicht
Wow~
This book is absolutly fascinating; I could'nt put it down when I started it...because the storeyline is so interesting but also tragic..Well, I just really enjoyed the book~
Am 25. März 2000 veröffentlicht
The definitive book on courtly love
Courtly love is perhaps one of the most human of all experiences. I think that nearly all of us have had at least some familiarity with being in love with the one person we cannot... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. März 2000 von D. Roberts
Best German love story
Gothe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is not only the best German love story, but also an excellent criticism of the society of this time. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Januar 2000 von Joerg Ahrens
Awesome lovestory
Probably the best love story ever written. It's impossible to escape the strange attraction of this book. If you can, read it in German, the english translation is ok. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Dezember 1999 von Tacitus
.....what a story!
The Sufferings of Young Werther, exemplifies unforgiving love. There is truth to this novella...that being, one will do anything for love and in turn love can make one insane;... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. November 1999 veröffentlicht
We love you Werthi
The book was fantastic and werther, we call him lovely Werthi, is pretty cool. His opinions are right and we think that we would do the same in his situation. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
The greatest love story ever written
As I said on the title, compared to Werther, Romeo and Juliet is a simple boring theatre piece. The second greatest book I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Vanessa from Singapore
The book was my introduction to Goethe, and it is one of the most beautiful books i have read for awhile. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Oh my gosh.
This book is absolutely BORING!! I can't believe almost everyone (or is it just everyone?) rated this book as 5 full stars! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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