A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation. Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1774. His hugely influential novel informed the writing of, among others, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann.In translating The Sufferings of Young Werther, Corngold follows the German text closely, never knowingly using a word that was not current in English at the time the novel was written and yet maintaining a modern grace and flair. The result is an eagerly awaited translation that speaks to our time through the astonishing liveliness of Goethe's language as well through the translator's own.
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The translator is to be congratulated on having produced a Werther in which both the substance and the tone of the original shine through --Times Literary Supplement
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Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. His highly acclaimed translations include Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Kafka's Selected Stories.
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Serviceable translation
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This new translation is accessible to contemporary American college students. The introduction provides a context for the novel. There is not as much biographical information and parallels as in some other versions. The Kindle version has major problems with font changes.
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Loved the translation. It was easy to use in class, easy to read, and much better than a paper back.
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Technical glitch responsible for low rating
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By Christopher
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I love Werther, and was enjoying the translation, but suddenly the font changes sizes in one passage (when Werther is reprimanding the jealous young man, right after he's first befriended Lotte) then switches back. Even when I try to manipulate the font size, the disjunction between passages remain. Have no idea if such problems persist throughout the e-text because I stopped reading then. It's frustrating how many Kindle e-books of classics have various technical problems.
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