The Sorrows of Young Werther
The genre evolves in the 1770s with, for example, Werther in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774) realising that it is impossible for him to integrate into the new conformist society, and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in "Les Liaisons dangereuses" (1782) showing a group of aristocrats playing games of intrigue and amorality..