Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella
By (Author) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Edited by David E. Welbery
Translated by Victor Lange
Translated by Judith Ryan
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th January 1996
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
838.609
Physical Properties
Paperback
312
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
425g
Description
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.
