Trying to confirm if the precursor to Elective Affinities…
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Trying to confirm if the precursor to Elective Affinities is real
(I know this sounds like a troll post, but just hear me out here.)
I've been a fan of Goethe's *Elective Affinities* (1809) for the longest time, since I was in secondary school, and I've always been under the impression that it was a rehashed version of one of his scrapped novels, *The Renouncers*. Basically, according to one of its assistants, it has a harem-type plot where one dude is in love with four women, each with their own qualities that made them lovable, and has to choose one. But he ditched the concept because it wasn't appealing to readers or something?
So, anyway, I was trying to look up more information about it (since the idea of the harem genre existing in 1800s Germany is lowkey hilarious to me), but all I could find from legit sources was *Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years* (1821), and the one source https://hmolpedia.com/page/The_Renouncers that confirmed this scrapped novel was... questionable.
Am I being punked here? 'Cause I'm kinda losing it over this.
#entertainment
(I know this sounds like a troll post, but just hear me out here.)
I've been a fan of Goethe's *Elective Affinities* (1809) for the longest time, since I was in secondary school, and I've always been under the impression that it was a rehashed version of one of his scrapped novels, *The Renouncers*. Basically, according to one of its assistants, it has a harem-type plot where one dude is in love with four women, each with their own qualities that made them lovable, and has to choose one. But he ditched the concept because it wasn't appealing to readers or something?
So, anyway, I was trying to look up more information about it (since the idea of the harem genre existing in 1800s Germany is lowkey hilarious to me), but all I could find from legit sources was *Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years* (1821), and the one source https://hmolpedia.com/page/The_Renouncers that confirmed this scrapped novel was... questionable.
Am I being punked here? 'Cause I'm kinda losing it over this.
#entertainment
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