I wanted to read this 18th century publishing phenomenon because of History Bites, a slightly crazy show that liked to imagine what history would have been like if television had been around. It did an episode on Goethe where a bunch of impressionable youths were dressing up in Werther’s blue coat a...
"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities . . . and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive re...
Classic, beautiful book that made me love it and hate it. Werther can look so arrogant when he talks and express about some people he met along the story, but we can’t help to like him and sympathize his sorrows when he falls in love with Lotte and realises that he could never be with her, she would...
I read this book in high school. So, I don't remember much of it, except the crying. I loved the story, I could relate to many of his thoughts about unrequited love and its tragic consequences, and feeling like it was the end of the world because I wasn't with that special someone and, well. High sc...
I am too in love to live,I've too much heart to give,Goodbye Lotte, please forgiveme, this heart's a sieve.I hope you won't think me pertLoving your dear wife, Albert.It was foolish of me to flirtwith fate: which now, I desert!Dear Wilhelm, dearest motherI hope I haven't been a bother.Real life has ...
فيرتر كان يذوب حباً و رومانسية , وانا أغلي غضبا فلو لم يقدم على الإنتحار , كنت سأقتله بنفسي :D رأيت في حبه المميت لها , حبا لنفسه فقط ,أحبَ امتلاكها ليسعدَ بها , لا ليسعدها , فلو أحبها بأخلاص حقا لما أقدم على فعلته (ونكّد عيشة اللّي خلفوها ), هو بذلك تركها ملومة محسورة تصارع أشباح الندم و الوحدة , ...
Will probably need to reread this and revise rating. I remember only liking the part about waltz - why exactly was it considered so thrilling and scandalous. Other than that, I thought protagonist a whiner - and given that the story is told through his letters, it made the experience unpleasant. I w...
Had to add a star to a book that isn't a favorite of mine because this translation is exceptional. Compare this brief passage in three modern translations:"Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they se...
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