( )ĭopo un anno ritorno da Goethe, da quello stesso Goethe che mi ha tormentata per settimane infinite con il suo Werther, da quello stesso scrittore che mi è stato vicino e mi ha fatto compagnia con le sue parole sincere, profonde, sensibili. Emotions can be as destructive as they are beautiful.
It makes you think about the way we experience emotions, and how we are all part of a mysterious game, driven by even more mysterious forces. One should not live his life without having read at least one work by Goethe. Especially interesting is how each person deals differently with the emotions he or she experiences and this supports the main point of the work: people are slaves to their personalities.
The desperate feelings that the protagonists experience are translated into descriptions of intense craving for something that cannot be. The passion, the forbidden love, is a theme that Goethe handles well. And Charlotte starts having feelings for Hauptmann, the friend of Eduard. It does not take long until things start to change in this once stable family: in no time Eduard falls in love with Otillie, the girlfriend of Charlotte. In this book, a wealthy couple, Eduard and Charlotte, invites two friends: one, a frail, polite girl, the other a solemn guy, who temporarily is out of work. The titles refers to the chemistry that occurs when certain people are placed together. A translation could never grasp the majestic feeling in which Goethe seems to soak all his words.ĭie Wahlverwandschaften is in the first place a book about interpersonal relationships.
This book, as well as das Leiden des Jungen Werters, have clearly shown to me the beauty of die Deutsche Sprache.īecause of this reason I would recommend everybody with only the slightest knowledge of German, to read this in the original language. Goethe doesn't just write in German, he is the very definition of the German language.
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