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...time he was 25. he had written the most successful novel in Europe's history. The Sorrows of Werther, and his suicidal young hero set off an emulatory wave of youthful self-destruction from...
...Griethysen makes Troilus into an effete poseur who has obviously just read The Sorrows of Young Werther. The only trouble with this interpretation is that such a Troilus would never even have survived basic training after being drafted into the Trojan army...
LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character...
...Godunov and Don Giovanni. Wagnerian Soprano Gertrude Grob-Prandl and Tenor Ludwig Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, discussed by Mark Van Doren, John Mason Brown and Ludwig Lewisohn...