Wednesday, October 21· 7pm
Unrequited Love seminar: Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Part 1
The second seminar in our “Unrequited Love” series spans the late Middle Ages to the early Romantic era, focusing on works in which male narrators’s furious—and unreturned—passions lead them to acts of creation or destruction. This seminar concludes with two sessions devoted to Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young
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Werther, a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel whose anguished representation of unrequited loves that result in self-destruction heralded the coming of the Romantic movement (and unleashed a spate of “copycat suicides” among young fans).