Word: wertherism
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...told local media, "but I will always for the rest of my working life have a strange feeling about this scene." After reprising the role Sunday, albeit with neck bandaged, Hoevels headed back to Hamburg Monday in preparation for his role in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. In that play, the long-suffering title character winds up shooting himself in the head. Someone might want to double-check...
...their unshakable self-loathing. The journal also features excerpts from Roger’s incubating debut meta-novel, the Scotch-soaked “Glove Pond.”The narrative style smacks of a sarcastic take on Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” all the way up to the discussion of one of the characters’ (totally unnecessary) attempt at suicide. While it is easy to sympathize with Roger and Bethany at first, with each passing chapter they seem that much further beyond the threshold of salvation. The characters?...
...sense) youth on the L.A. party circuit. Hemingway was only 27 when he published The Sun Also Rises. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby at 28; Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 32. (Not that it really matters, but Goethe was just 25 when he published The Sorrows of Young Werther, one of the first voice-of-a-generation novels, in 1774. It's not really the done thing now, but back then throughout Europe it was very hip to dress up like Werther in a blue coat and yellow trousers...
...lament. The singer is so tortured that by the end, his meeting with a stone-faced organ grinder does not have nearly the chilling impact that it should. And while this work is all about excessive emotions, an excessive display can hurt its credibility. Van Dam never overplayed the Werther-like persona of the narrator. He avoided the indulgent self-pity that lends itself easily to the work. The cycle as a whole, while overwhelmingly dark, has moments of repose, fragmentary glimpses of life that end as soon as they begin...
...already, and I squinted as I crossed the street. The Iced Vietnamese is composed of iced coffee with sweet condensed milk. The sweet syrupy milk tends to settle at the bottom, but when swished around well, the effect is better than cream and sugar. It tastes like liquid Werther's. I've never heard anyone else order an Iced Vietnamese...