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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393935561
Year: 2013
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 256


Description:
"Corngold's new translation is of the very highest quality,
punctiliously faithful to Goethe's German and sensitive to
gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first
novel."
?J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books


A masterpiece of the European imagination, The Sufferings of
Young Werther is the classic strum und drang tale of
youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley
Corngold brings passion and precision to Goethe?s timeless
novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new
rendition. The text is accompanied by the translator?s
introduction and is fully annotated.


Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection,
deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant
today as when the work was first published in 1774. This hugely
influential novel was immediately bought, printed, read, exported,
and imitated throughout Europe, and what Goethe called the novel's
"fire rockets" have continued to blaze through the centuries,
influencing, among many others, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. The
reader?s understanding and appreciation are enhanced by the
Norton Critical Edition?s inclusion of a rich selection of
Goethe?s letters and diary entries as well an
autobiographical excerpt and lampoons.


"Criticism" brings together seven of the most influential essays
written about The Sufferings of Young Werther over the last
fifty years. Contributors include Harry Steinhauer, Roland Barthes,
R. Ellis Dye, David Wellbery, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Dirk von
Petersdorff, and Christiane Frey and David Martyn.


A Chronology and Selected Biblio