The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author's name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Werther" is considered the first contemporary novel, and because of this, it captures our hearts, as if it were being lived today, as if it were written today. Yes, this is precisely its secret: it makes people of our time, who are not of the characteristics of Lotte or Werther, feel themselves, as if they were at the heart of the novel. Because, as with ancient violence, here what is human is recovered and brought back to life, crowned with love.
"Heart," that word appears so often in Werther's letters, it dominates the entire novel as a theme. It is not about heroism and adventures as in the novels before it, not about problems, hardships, dangers, and the variety of life as in the novels of our time, but rather his letters always speak only of love—yes, more precisely: of one love.