歌德：少年维特的烦恼 英文原版 The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe

基本信息

By (author) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Format Paperback | 144 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 8mm | 112g

Publication date 01 Aug 1989

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Reissue

ISBN10 014044503X

ISBN13 9780140445039

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

无数时代的心声－年少的烦恼、憧憬与自由幻想的精神爱情因而是一种艺术、一种眷恋、一种恣意的沉溺。

瓦罕尔是一座属于歌德的城市，古典的都铎式房屋蜿蜓在迷宫般的石街小巷里；少年维特炽烈的爱情在小城里久久徘徊，驶过浓密的森林、狂飙着青春的牢骚－「在这个天堂也似的地方，寂寞是我心灵可口的止痛膏，这个明漾的春天以全然的丰沛温暖着我经常悸动的心。每一棵树，每一丛矮树篱就像一束花，你会希望变成金龟子，好悠游在这芬芳的汪洋大海之中，并在其中找到自己的滋养品。」

青春属于翩翩飞舞的舞会、日光下散步的叠影，以及一千个吻之深的魂牵梦萦－「我离去前问她，这一天是否能再见她一面？她同意，而我也来了－从那一刻开始，太阳、月亮和星星于焉运行，我既不知白日，遑论夜晚，全世界都消失了。」

A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from with an introduction by Michael Hulse.

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte. Although he realises that she is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success, and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and suppression on the grounds of its apparent support of suicide. Goethe's sensitive exploration of the mind of an artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature.

This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse, who explores the origins of the novel in the author's life and examines its impact on European culture.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Although he directed the German State Theatre, dabbled in the occult and worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany, Goethe is best remembered for his great works The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust, and his part in the 18th century 'Sturm and Drang' movement.

If you enjoyed The Sorrows of Young Werther, you might like Stendhal's Love, also published in Penguin Classics.

作者简介

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749. He is best remembered for his great works The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust, and his part in the 18th century 'Sturm and Drang' movement. He died in 1832. Michael Hulse is an acclaimed literary German translator.