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In 1968 Jean-Pierre Lajournade made a metacinematic critical reading of the novel in Werther (aka Les Souffrances du jeune Werther), a film made for TV infused with the aesthetics and the politics of the time. Spanish filmmaker Pilar Miró adapted the novel in 1986 in Werther.
Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life.
The Novel of Werther (French: Le Roman de Werther) is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay and Jean Galland. It is based on the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. [1] The film was made by Nero Film, a company run by German exiles who had left following the ...
Young Werther sits at his writing desk as a young boy brings him his pistol with which he is going to kill himself while a young woman tries to prevent the boy from delivering the weapon. Line engraving by P. Bonato after A. Kauffman.
Plenzdorf wrote the novel using the East German (DDR) youth slang of the 1970s and "montage" or "collage" techniques, changing the registers of the narration and composing it as a medley of tape transcripts with excerpts of Goethe, dialogues of Edgar with the other characters and Edgar's commentary on his life; while the main character compares himself with Goethe's protagonist, he mocks ...
"Sorrows of Werther" is a satirical poem by William Makepeace Thackeray written in response to the enormous success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. [ 1 ] Text
Soon after its publication in 1774, young women were impressed by the novel and young men began to dress in yellow pants and blue jackets, like young Werther, the main character in the novel. Werther shoots himself with a pistol after he is rejected by the woman he loves, and shortly after its publication there were many reports of young men ...
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