· 1749 · Enlightenment
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author of Werther, and of the observation that people keep making the same mistakes, which is arguably the first great novel to describe a reader being changed by a book.
Wrote the most influential suicide in European literature and then spent his life doing the opposite of his character.
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