Question

This character is snubbed by a group of aristocrats at Count C’s party, causing him to leave. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, whose “sorrows” are recounted in a 1774 epistolary novel. This Ossian-loving character commits suicide over his love for Lotte at the end of that novel with Albert’s borrowed pistols.
ANSWER: Young Werther [accept The Sorrows of Young Werther]
[10e] The Sorrows of Young Werther is a novel by this German author who wrote about a scholar attempting to rescue Gretchen after making a deal with Mephistopheles in Faust.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“GUR-tuh”)
[10h] The Sorrows of Young Werther is a prime example of this coming-of-age literary genre, which Goethe often wrote in. Its name roughly translates to “novel of education” in German.
ANSWER: Bildungsroman
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