The Sorrows of Young Werther (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- First Published: 1774
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: 1770’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Rural or country life, Obsession, Eighteenth century, Germany or German people
- Locales: Germany
Places Discussed
Walheim (vahl-HIM). Small town in Germany’s Rhineland-Pfalz region. Near this town is an idyllic country village that enables the novel’s young protagonist, Werther, to forget his romantic disappointments. There, he can languish in the hills, amid streams and flowers, and enjoy the Godliness of peasant life, which he extols in the letters that make up this epistolary novel. Werther expresses his passion for nature, his admiration of natural country folk and simplistic living, and his overflowing emotions for his new obsession, Lotte, about whose selfless...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Poetry)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Drama)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Short Fiction)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Long Fiction)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Censorship)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dictionary of World Biography)
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