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When Will Novels Fix Society Already?
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When Will Novels Fix Society Already?

Fiction can help us understand our world, but that doesn't mean novels can solve our problems.

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Lincoln Michel
Jun 15, 2022
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In the 18th-century, a specter was haunting Europe—the specter of “Werther Fever.” Goethe’s 1774 epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was so popular that it catapulted the young Goethe into international fame and set off a trend of young men wearing yellow trousers and electric blue jackets… and also, allegedly, thousa…

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