Goethe, Volume 11:
The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--Novella
Edited by David E. Welbery
Translated by Victor Lange and Judith Ryan

Paper | 1995 | $24.95 / £16.95
304 pp. | 6 x 9

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Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: 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.

Table of Contents:

Prefatory Note ix
The Sorrows of Young Werther (translated by Victor Lange) 1
Elective Affinities (translated by Judith Ryan) 89
Novella (translated by Victor Lange) 263
Notes 281
Afterword 283

Other Princeton books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Goethe, Volume 2: Faust I & II.
• Goethe, Volume 3: Essays on Art and Literature.
• Goethe, Volume 5: From My Life: Campaign in France 1792-Siege of Mainz.
• Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
• Goethe, Volume 10: Conversations of German Refugees--Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants.

Subject Areas:

• Comparative Literature
• Collected Works and Papers
• Literature: Primary Works and Letters

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