Werther is a weird one. Obviously the story is extremely dated and a bit weird, but also when I was TAing a class on Goethe's Faust, the prof said she'd basically stopped teaching Werther because every semester she did, there was at least one student who identified with it a bit too much. So idk maybe it is "the book you only like if you are actively suicidal" or something...
I think what really gets me is that Werther is such a prat. What kind of idiot dotes on Ossian and tries to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach?
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Date: 2026-05-08 09:20 pm (UTC)ETA: oooh actually, an Elective Affinities opera would be lots of fun...
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