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I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More: Goethe adaptation feels more American Pie than high literature

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par Sofia Nilsson Warkander, PhD Candidate, 17th-Century Literature, Stockholm University

José Lourenço’s film adaptation of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther opens with a line on screen stating it is “based on the smash hit 1774 novel of tragic romance”. Set in contemporary Canada, it revolves around Werther (Douglas Booth), who falls tragically in love with Charlotte (Alison Pill), who is already engaged to Albert (Patrick J. Adams).

Goethe’s “smash hit” was written in a new literary landscape, where both readers and writers increasingly belonged to…

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