"To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again, as recent and unknown to me, books which I had read carefully a few years before . . . I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book . . . the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it." (Montaigne, Book II, Essay 10 (publ. 1580))

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774)

(110 pp)

Book club selection (via me; session held 23 July 2017).

Last read in 2009; my summary from back then still works well enough.

Biography of Goethe summarized here.

Discussion at session useful/interesting - partly as we wrestle with understanding blockbuster status when initially published.

Held the session at CPG house due to air conditioner failure(s) at ours.  PJ with some good cooking, including Grandma's peach pie.


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