Werther

[Thomas Eckhardt]

When I read it, "Elective Affinities" to me seemed to be very much a 
precursor to the works of Flaubert, Maupassant etc. A kind of 
psychological realism (are there any others?) which borders on cruelty.

Thanks for the links.

Thomas

>--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>wrote:
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>>One translation I came across is "Elective
>>Affinities".
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>Oh, okay, duh.  Have copy, haven't read.  Bought it,
>as well as some Beaumarchais, apres ...
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>Müller-Sievers, Helmut. Self-Generation:
>   Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800.
>   Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1997.
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>http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=2779
>
>Though this looks interesting as well ...
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>Lupton, Christina.  "Naming the Baby:
>   Sterne, Goethe, and the Power of the Word."
>   MLN 118.5 (2003): 1213-1236.
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>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/v118/118.5lupton.html
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>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/v118/118.5lupton.pdf
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