John O. Andersen

Lucy,

> One side thing I thought about while reading this: with a passion for
> German Literature, you must have read Goethe. I am just starting to read
> him, having read some of his quotes in other books. Are there any of his
> writings that you would recommend in particular?

Try "Faust, Part I" and "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" for starters.
You may also be interested in "Sorrows of the Young Werther." That work was
one of the prominent influences of the Storm and Stress period (1760s) in
German literature; not unlike the youth rebellion in this country during the
1960s.

John Andersen
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