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The Sorrows of Young Werther
This novel launched Goethe into Europe-wide stardom & is a kind of 18th century Catcher in the Rye with its disaffected/unlikable lead, and its extreme popularity inspiring dubious behavior in its most faithful disciples (not only the alleged copycat suicides, but the investigative prying into the lives of the innocent people unwittingly included in Goethe's roman a clef).
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This novel launched Goethe into Europe-wide stardom & is a kind of 18th century Catcher in the Rye with its disaffected/unlikable lead, and its extreme popularity inspiring dubious behavior in its most faithful disciples (not only the alleged copycat suicides, but the investigative prying into the lives of the innocent people unwittingly included in Goethe's roman a clef).
