The Sorrows of Young Werther (AmazonClassics Edition)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. GOETHE

AmazonClassics

2018

140 páginas

4h 40m

ISBN-10: 1503901971

Revised edition: Previously published as The Sorrows of Young Werther, this edition of The Sorrows of Young Werther (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. Composed almost entirely of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm, The Sorrows of Young Werther is a heartbreaking narrative about a doomed love. Werther, a young artist driven more by the heart than by reason, is already enraptured with the elusive Charlotte when she marries another man better suited to her class. To keep Charlotte near, Werther befriends her husband--a bid that becomes a torturous reminder of all he's lost. Then, out of sincere pity, Charlotte can think of only one way to help free Werther from his self-destructive passion, but he has a different plan of escape. In one of the first important novels of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature, the self-absorption of youth unites with the extremes of emotion to create a perfect storm, leaving readers shipwrecked on the shores of grief and awe.

Resenhas (6)

4.5 (Muito bom)

Mais um dos livros que eu deveria ter lido no ensino médio e tô lendo com três anos de atraso.
Eu não tenho palavras pra descrever o quanto esse livro mexeu comigo. Werther é basicamente um grande buraco negro de emoções em forma de homem e por mais que muitas vezes ele sinta até demais, eu não pude evitar sentir junto com ele. Essa história eleva o conceito de amor não correspondido a níveis extravagantes, mas qualquer um que já tenha sentido na pele o que é amar sozinho, não vai ter dificuldade em entender até mesmo as piores extravagâncias presentes aqui.