num_pages: 304
description: Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.
language: German
title: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, and Novella
titlecomplete: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, and Novella (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 11)
genres: Fiction, Romanticism, German Literature, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Novels, The World
ratings_count: 770
publisher: Princeton University Press