“Effluvios pestiferos da perversidade do Século”: Readings of Werther in the Luso-Brazilian world

Authors

  • Márcia Abreu

Keywords:

Os Sofrimentos do Jovem Werther, Goethe, História da leitura, The Sorrows of Young Werther, History of reading, Brasil

Abstract

This text traces the birth of Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and its circulation in the Luso-Brazilian environment, with special focus on the Brazilain and Portuguese censors´ official judgment.

Published

15/05/2007

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