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A review by snowleopardlover
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4.0
This book is steady with its pace and the plot has been very skillfully and maturely executed, but my personal opinion is that The Sorrows of Young Werther is a much more powerful work than this (perhaps because the romantic sentiments of Werther happen to be exponentially more powerful that Eduard's and Ottilie's).
Nevertheless, this book is a very splendid realistic rendering of the country-side aristocracy. Though, not as gripping as The Sorrows of Young Werther, the way, Goethe has introduced a curious interplay of chance and fate, reason and passion and finally amalgamated them into an astonishing ending makes this book worth reading.
Nevertheless, this book is a very splendid realistic rendering of the country-side aristocracy. Though, not as gripping as The Sorrows of Young Werther, the way, Goethe has introduced a curious interplay of chance and fate, reason and passion and finally amalgamated them into an astonishing ending makes this book worth reading.