Epistolary Novel Example
Drafting / / July 04, 2021
The plot unfolds around the correspondence between various characters; The new Heloise, by Rousseau, Werther, by Goethe. Let's pick a few paragraphs from Werther:
"December 4th. I ask you, my friend... I am reduced at the extreme end. I can't suffer any longer. He was sitting next to her, when she played the piano, with the greatest expression, various pieces of music. Everything, everything... What shall I say?, her little sister made up her wrist on my knees. My eyes welled up with tears. I leaned a little and saw his wedding ring: then my tears could not be stopped... He suddenly began to play that ancient sonata, whose sweet melody has something heavenly; and immediately I felt a feeling of comfort invade my soul and rejuvenate the memory of everything the past, of all the melancholic and painful moments, of all my vanished hopes: and then... I went back and forth around the room; my heart was drowning. "In the name of God, you. I said with the most lively expression, in the name of God I ask you to separate from the piano. "He stopped playing, and looked at me with the greatest attention. "Werther, he told me with a smile that touched my soul, Werther, you are very bad: your favorite delicacies disgust you. Gone; and calm down. "I tore myself, so to speak, from his side, and.. .Oh my God! you see my misfortune, and you will put an end to it. "(Cf. Complementary bibliography, N? 24)