In the new issue of The New York Review of Books, J.M.Coetzee reviews Stanley Corngold's new translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic, The Sufferings of Young Werther, in Storm Over Young Goethe.
He's impressed, too, concluding:
He's impressed, too, concluding:
Corngold's new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe's German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.See also the W.W.Norton publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.