Los padecimientos del joven Werther
Sept 2008 · Ediciones AKAL
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El apasionado y sentimental Werther ha encontrado la felicidad en un pequeño pueblo en el que el delicioso paisaje y la gente sencilla que lo habita aportan la calma y la serenidad que precisa su inquieto espíritu. Durante un baile trabará amistad con Lotte, la hija de un corregidor del príncipe, quien desde el primer instante despierta en él una pasión que ni siquiera el compromiso matrimonial de la joven puede apagar. Pese a ser consciente de la imposibilidad de su relación, se ve incapaz de renunciar a su amistad, alimentando de esta manera un sentimiento autodestructivo en el que se mezclan el placer más sublime con el dolor más intenso. "Los padecimientos del joven Werther" supusieron un éxito editorial sin precedentes en su país y se convirtieron en una pieza indispensable para comprender el desarrollo posterior de la literatura alemana y europea. Pero sobre todo es una de las más brillantes descripciones de las facetas más hermosas y crueles del amor que mantiene toda su vigencia pese al tiempo transcurrido, ya que, como le comentaba el propio Goethe a su secretario Eckermann, sería malo si cada uno no tuviera una época en su vida en el que le parezca que Werther fue escrito sólo para él.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main. He was greatly influenced by his mother, who encouraged his literary aspirations. After troubles at school, he was taught at home and gained an exceptionally wide education. At the age of 16, Goethe began to study law at Leipzig University from 1765 to 1768, and he also studied drawing with Adam Oeser. After a period of illness, he resumed his studies in Strasbourg from 1770 to 1771. Goethe practiced law in Frankfurt for two years and in Wetzlar for a year. He contributed to the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen from 1772 to 1773, and in 1774 he published his first novel, self-revelatory Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers. In 1775 he was welcomed by Duke Karl August into the small court of Weimar, where he worked in several governmental offices. He was a council member and member of the war commission, director of roads and services, and managed the financial affairs of the court. Goethe was released from day-to-day governmental duties to concentrate on writing, although he was still general supervisor for arts and sciences, and director of the court theatres. In the 1790s Goethe contributed to Friedrich von Schiller ́s journal Die Horen, published Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and continued his writings on the ideals of arts and literature in his own journal, Propyläen. The first part of his masterwork, Faust, appeared in 1808, and the second part in 1832. Goethe had worked for most of his life on this drama, and was based on Christopher Marlowe's Faust. From 1791 to 1817, Goethe was the director of the court theatres. He advised Duke Carl August on mining and Jena University, which for a short time attracted the most prominent figures in German philosophy. He edited Kunst and Altertum and Zur Naturwissenschaft. Goethe died in Weimar on March 22, 1832. He and Duke Schiller are buried together, in a mausoleum in the ducal cemetery.
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