Written in the jargon of the gdryouth of the 1970s, it details the tragic story of a young man and his attempt to. It is based on the 1774 novel the sorrows of young werther by goethe. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Werther gradually becomes more emotional and less mentally stable. Born in berlin, plenzdorf studied philosophy in leipzig, but graduated with a degree in film. The french critic and theorist roland barthes produced a study of lovers discourse using several examples from werther, entitled fragments dun discours amoureux 1977, translated as a lovers. Translated by romy fursland previously translated by kenneth p. Part of the reason it has stood up so well is because it is from the european 68periphery, untouched by the more eraspecific massengagement the roiled, for example, paris and west. A young dropout sits in a summer house, reading goethes classics and resisting the strict rules of socialism.