"Western literature, along with all great Western art, is Christian in character, including the product of a putative heathen like Goethe, whom Franz Rosenzweig correctly called the prototype of a modern Christian.[3] It is Christian precisely because it deals with overcoming one's "inner self"."
Good catch enjoyed the post.
Very un-PC to recognize the Complete Christian underpinnings of our civilization.
BUT...I'd rather not read Young Werther again. Maybe it was the translation, but Goethe reeks. The whole thing was a whiney, superficial piece of mental vomit.
Once was far more than enough times to suffer through reading "THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER"!