The Sorrows of Young Werther was impactful in ushering in the romantic age of literature--though Goethe nearly killed it off before it began. The novel was the foundation on which the German Sturm und Dang (storm and urge) literary style was launched, sporting reckless characters tossed about the /5(). · On its publication in , The Sorrows of Young Werthergained an instant cult following. European readers were captivated by the rapturous ruminations Author: Kristen Treen. In , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (–) went to Strasbourg to study law. There, he had a love affair that later inspired the idyllic Dichtung und Wahrheit (). He then practiced law in Frankfurt, where he composed The Sorrows of Young Werther (). Goethe accepted an invitation from the Duke of Weimar in to join his court and for a decade held various official positions there/5(45).
The Sorrows of Young Werther contains characters of nearly all ages, but its primary concerns rest with Werther, Lotte, and Albert, three youths at the threshold of adulthood. As Goethe depicts it, young adulthood is a dangerous time: the authorities of youth (parents, teachers, elders) become less powerful, while the young adult's own. The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary, specifically a collection of letters, penned by prolific German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was published in the s, and with its dark quixotic themes, it became a major influence to the later Romantic era. Bonaparte considered this book one of the great works of European literature. The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first novel. It was published in under the original title of Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. It was later published in English in This short epistolary novel of pages is a landmark of the German Romantic movement.
The Sorrows of Young Werther is a epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five-and-a-half weeks of intensive writing in January–March It instantly placed him among the foremost international literary celebrities and was among the best known of his works. In , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (–) went to Strasbourg to study law. There, he had a love affair that later inspired the idyllic Dichtung und Wahrheit (). He then practiced law in Frankfurt, where he composed The Sorrows of Young Werther (). Goethe accepted an invitation from the Duke of Weimar in to join his court and for a decade held various official positions there. The literary impact of Johann Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther cannot be underestimated. It was the second Gothic novel, a decade after the first: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Ortranto.
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