Selections from The Sufferings of Young Werther- Goethe

2012 Edition: Published by Norton

Translator: Stanley Corngold

Below you will find your reading for Monday. Since we will be skipping around quite a bit in the book- I suggest you read a summary of the book online and of each chapter to get the gist of the main plot. (The plot is not SUPER important here so this is not cheating in the slightest.)

While reading please look for the sensuous as we described it in class today. Please also consider the language, the narrative structure, and the atmosphere of the text.

You are to read:

Beginning- p.27

May 30th: p. 32-43

July 26th- p. 58

January 8th 1772 (When Werther has gone away) p. 84

The Editor to the Reader: p. 116-120

December 12th p. 112

p. 147- end

( it is not as long as it seems these are mostly written as diary entries/letters) The text is here in PDF form:

Sufferings

Please bring this to class on Monday! Read closely. Underline. Come up with themes for discussion as we have been doing.