by Ulrich Plenzdorf · Distribooks Int'l+inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518368008
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«Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.» is the novel by Ulrich Plenzdorf, published in paperback in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series (148 pages, in German).
Edgar Wibeau, a seventeen-year-old, leaves his apprenticeship after a confrontation with his superior and goes to Berlin. In a shed in an allotment garden he finds Goethe's Werther and, without realizing it, begins to see his life through the work's quotations. The novel portrays rebellion and the search for identity in the GDR.
It is number 300 in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series. The work has links with The Sorrows of Young Werther and with The Catcher in the Rye.
Recommended as school reading and for intermediate-level German students.
Ulrich Plenzdorf was a German author and dramatist.
