Werther’s ecstatic love soon tortures both himself and Lotte as it begins to conflict with the norms of polite society. Soon he finds out that Lotte is engaged to a likable but unimaginative local official, Albert, currently absent. His happiness reaches new heights when he meets Lotte, a charming sweet-natured young girl, a daughter of a local town dignitary. There he indulges his imagination by immersing himself in the idyllic delights of untained nature. Werther, a sensitive young man of some means, flees the complexities of life by taking refuge in the countryside. The Sorrows of Young Werther (German, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is comprised, for the most part, of letters written by a hopelessly romantic young man named Werther to a friend named Wilhelm with the addition of editorial notes (those notes try to balance the inveitable drawbacks of first-person narrative). Review by : Bridget/Anachronist portable pieces of thoughts Topics: unrequired love, commitment, social acceptance and the lack of it, suicide, nature, nurture, sense of existence Genre: epistolary novel, loose autobiography
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