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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
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3/5 ⭐
Wzruszyła mnie ta historia. Zadziwiająco złapała mnie za serce, jako osoby która nie czyta dużo romansideł. Bohaterowie mnie urzekli, zwłaszcza Werter pełen sprzeczności w sobie.
Wzruszyła mnie ta historia. Zadziwiająco złapała mnie za serce, jako osoby która nie czyta dużo romansideł. Bohaterowie mnie urzekli, zwłaszcza Werter pełen sprzeczności w sobie.
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Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Me inquieta que esto le pueda parecer a alguien romántico. Idealizar una obsesión de este tipo es bastante chungo, parecido a idealizar relaciones como las de Romeo y Julieta. Ya hubo en su momento bastantes suicidios relacionados con la publicación de Werther...
cannot deny that while reading it, this novel (which is Goethe's first) felt like an important book. the ardent romanticism of a youth who has only recently crossed the thresholds of adolescence seemed strikingly familiar even after all these years. the blood, the vehemence, the angst, and the resignation – story is that many youths across europe committed suicide upon reading the book; and Napoleon himself was deeply smitten by this novel and carried a copy in his pockets when he went to battle in Egypt.
here's the thing: Wether is an impassioned novel, which explains perhaps the many reactions and legends that surround it, and i think it is well written and powerful. notwithstanding, i simply wasn't taken by it as i had expected myself to. perhaps the conditions were't ripe, for i read it under the hot summer sun in what now seems like a flurry, and might have in process missed out on something. even then, perhaps i found it difficult to reconcile with its apparently honest romantic leanings, and like Lotte, i myself said to Werther "be moderate! be moderate!" a few times while reading.
frankly, i do not want to dissuade anyone from reading the novel. it is short and it is also Goethe, for whom i have a deep admiration. but two words of caution: unrequited angst.
here's the thing: Wether is an impassioned novel, which explains perhaps the many reactions and legends that surround it, and i think it is well written and powerful. notwithstanding, i simply wasn't taken by it as i had expected myself to. perhaps the conditions were't ripe, for i read it under the hot summer sun in what now seems like a flurry, and might have in process missed out on something. even then, perhaps i found it difficult to reconcile with its apparently honest romantic leanings, and like Lotte, i myself said to Werther "be moderate! be moderate!" a few times while reading.
frankly, i do not want to dissuade anyone from reading the novel. it is short and it is also Goethe, for whom i have a deep admiration. but two words of caution: unrequited angst.
This book wasn't at all what I was expecting. This is no romantic tragedy - it is an account of an incredibly selfish and self-absorbed young man with a very inflated opinion of himself and his own ideas, who is so spoilt and expectant that when he is for once denied his desire he wallows in invented misery, with not a care for the unneessary pain he sees this inflicting upon those he supposedly cares about, and which he feels he must logically conclude with, and validate by, suicide. I don't think I've ever been so infuriated by a fictional character before. As someone with longstanding depression who has read an awful lot of literature on depression and/or by depressives, I find Werther both insufferable and insulting. Proof, I suppose, that melodrama and misunderstanding around mental health has always existed. I also found the sexism in this book particularly irksome, maybe because it comes from a character willfully destroying his life for one of these silly creatures called 'women'. These issues are not just due to the book being 'of its age' - humanity, and its stupidity, is timeless, and while there can be beauty in a breakdown, there is none in this one.
in diesem buch stand jede menge unverständliches und aggressiv machendes blablabla
I'm not a fan of writing from the romantic period, but if you're going to read one, this would be it. Werther comes off a little whiny and self-involved, but that is to some extent the point.
