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[Anonymous No.18532939]

I've finished Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther recently and, while I've been told its his worst, I still wish there was more short stories he wrote that shares this vein. I am not sure quite how to describe it, I wasn't massively blown away by any particular component of the story, it's more like every piece was at a certain level of pleasing such that it didn't need to have a dominant draw to capture my attention. What I am curious about is the context, was Goethe writing what he genuinely felt or moreso a reflection of it? Werther seems to profess a perverted version of Kierkegaard's thoughts, and im curious if im just grasping or if other anons got something similar out of it.