Goethe’s first real success came actually as a novelist and his The Sorrows of Young Werther was every bit The Catcher in the Rye of its day. In both cases their other achievements have tended to be overshadowed by these triumphs. Goethe’s magnum opus was, of course, the drama Faust. Salinger is best known for his coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye. On the surface you would think that the reclusive American novelist J D Salinger would have very little in common with the eighteenth-century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. As it stands it’s still really only an outline but if anyone out there has to cover the book as a part of a class project this should at least point them in the right direction and give them a few ideas.
It was a book I was prepared to dislike but, much to my surprise I didn’t in fact I got so caught up in researching it that what I’ve ended up with is far more than a mere review.
– Goethe, My Life: Poetry and TruthĪ few weeks ago Oneworld Classics sent me a review copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Suicide is an event of human nature which, whatever may be said and done with respect to it, demands the sympathy of every man, and in every epoch must be discussed anew.
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