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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know things are not going well when I catch myself wishing the main character would hurry up and kill himself fairly early in my reading. Werther is a seminal text in the 'Woe is Me' School of over-educated under-employed workshy fops who go rustic, press pennies into the grubby hands of any peasant they see, fall in love with fifteen year-old girls already promised to another, weep all over the place and write melodramatic letters to their friend expounding on the unique condition of their pure unrequited love, and then mecifully shoot theirselves with their rival's pistol.
I could summon not a scrap of sympathy for this creepy wastrel and can only hope that Goethe wrote it for cash to fund his more serious works. I was about to give Flaubert's Madame Bovary a go this winter, but as I hear it takes inspiration from this dirge, I shall postpone.
I could summon not a scrap of sympathy for this creepy wastrel and can only hope that Goethe wrote it for cash to fund his more serious works. I was about to give Flaubert's Madame Bovary a go this winter, but as I hear it takes inspiration from this dirge, I shall postpone.