The German national poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe provoked outrage in 1809 with his novel Elective Affinities. He brings forth his observant study of marriage & passion, bringing together 4 people in a relentless manner. The novel questions whether or not we have free will and confronts its characters with the gruesome consequences of suppressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it seems to them as something terrible and catastrophic.
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