Goethe: Les Souffrances Du Jeune Werther

This 3-CD set features a 1959 radio recording of famous actor Jean Desailly. He reads German romanticism’s most famous work : “The Sorrows of young Werther” by Goethe. Written in year 1774, this book establish Goethe as a major writter of 18th century’s literature and initiate the rise of european romanticism. In French.