Recensione - "I dolori del giovane Werther" - Johann Wolfgang Goethe Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther Pages 160 ISBN 978-88-541-2046-4
6.00 Euro 4.80 Plot: The Werther is the most famous love story in literature German and among the most widely read and popular of European fiction. In the form of letters reflects the true story of falling for the young Goethe Lotte Buff, artistically reshaped impossible love between Werther and Charlotte and unhappy, who will become loyal wife of Albert. But, although the autobiographical imprint strong emotional vibrations to each other, the Werther
represents much more. A long been debating to show that this is a romantic, religious, philosophical, social and even political, in short, a literary document, but also moral, on the conditions in which the bourgeoisie in Germany a few years before the outbreak the French Revolution.
REVIEW I am almost ashamed to review this famous classic Goethe, so praised and loved by generations, but in my opinion it's worth less than zero (to quote my beloved Bret Easton Ellis), an attempt cosata nothing.
Goethe, Goethe, Goethe ... when I hear that last name, my brain tends to immediately connect it to "The Sorrows of Young Werther." A correspondence involuntary that now, having read the book, it becomes quite voluntary. An epistolary novel that transports to another time where the young Wether, so different from the "youth" of today, he pines for the same problems of teenagers from around the world: unrequited love.
Too bad that, as a good romantic author, Goethe had a tragic end in Serbian for our hesitant lover, a conclusion easily predictable from the mid book.
The first letters of Werther describes an idyllic setting and no indicator that will suffer the torments of the protagonist, but here, with the arrival of Lotte and irrational feelings that grow out of proportion, the novel takes a completely different turn. The nature disappears and is replaced by anxiety and obsessive love for a woman irraggiungile.
Goethe is truly a master in describing this kind of feelings and I defy anyone not to try at least a modicum of compassion and empathy for this character who is slowly self-destruct. Suicide, Werther, and it seems the only solution appears as an extreme act of liberation from suffering. Death is his paradise.
Obviously, I am totally opposed to suicide as a solution to stop the pain, but Goethe is able to transform into something this insane act of harmonious and heroic, and this shows how literature can be "beautiful" something so horrible.
Definitely not a book to read under an umbrella with a drink, but is well worth diving into this gloomy atmosphere for riemergene fortified and aware of what the man should be able to feel when in love. My moral is always the same, however: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! The Life is a gift, suicide is to waste this gift.
Every tree, every bush is a bouquet of flowers and I want to be a beetle for books in this sea of \u200b\u200bperfume and be able to find all my food.
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