By Martin Swales
The culture of the German novel, ahead of the emergence of its 'classic' writers within the first half the 20th century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), doesn't have an guaranteed position within the canon of ecu literature. now not that it has sought after for lively advocates; yet, regardless of all efforts, it has remained firmly at the outer edge. the single sign exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers often rendered as 'The Sorrows of younger Werther'. Werther used to be a rare and quick bestseller either in Germany and overseas.
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