Tabs & Twists
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The defining work of Romanticism: the letters of young Werther, bound by unrequited love to Lotte, who is engaged to another man.
- Genre
- Drama
- Subgenre
- Romantic drama
- Setting / Period
- 18th-century Germany
- Publisher
- Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
- First published
- 1774
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- Turkish
Review
Werther falls in love with Lotte, whom he meets in a country town, but Lotte is engaged to someone else. His letters to his friend Wilhelm reveal his ever-deepening despair.
When it was published, Goethe's short novel caused a sensation across Europe and became the emblem of the Sturm und Drang movement.
