by Johann Wolfgang Goethe · Azzurra Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788898840892
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«I dolori del giovane Werther» is the epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, published by Azzurra Publishing in paperback (96 pages, in Italian).
Epistolary novel composed of the letters that young Werther sends to his friend Guglielmo over twenty months. Emblematic work of Sturm und Drang, it anticipates themes of German Romanticism: the exaltation of feeling against Enlightenment rationalism and the clash of the sensitive individual with a society incapable of renewal.
The novel was originally published in 1774 as «Die Leiden des jungen Werthers». This 2015 Italian edition belongs to the collection «Grandi classici della letteratura».
A masterpiece of Sturm und Drang, it is common reading in school settings, useful for students of European literature and for those who want to read it in Italian.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.
