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Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella

Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella

Paperback

Series: Princeton Paperbacks

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0691043469
ISBN13: 9780691043463
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Nov 19 1995
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.

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