The Conversation: The Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon
The Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon
The history of suicide is replete with instances of copycat behavior, sometimes referred to as the Werther Effect. The name comes from The Sorrows of Young Werther, a 1774 novel by Goethe. In it, the ...
The Sorrows Of Young Werther and The Rise of ParodyHere’s a story for the ages: emo kid falls in love with hot girl with a boyfriend. He confronts her and she loses it. Maybe she’s his? But she […] ...
Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in literature is the title figure in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” — a martyr to unrequited love who ultimately commits ...
Logline: Alison Pill and Douglas Booth star in this adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 18th-century novella The Sorrows of Young Werther, relocated to modern-day Toronto in the form of a ...
'Young Werther' is a modern-day adaptation of the 18th-century novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Iris Apatow and Patrick J. Adams are updating a classic story. PEOPLE ...
ANTONIO IN LOVE by Giuseppe Berto. 302 pages. Knopf. $5.95. Our young friend had in fact been accustomed for some time to the idea of the intercommunion or mutual compensation of sorrows and pleasures ...
Yahoo: ‘Young Werther’ Review: Suitor or Stalker? This Canadian Comedy’s Blindly Narcissistic Hero Is Both