Lives and Deaths of Werther

Dr Johannes Kaminski is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2011 and has held research posts at the University of Cambridge, Taipei, Vienna, and Comenius University Bratislava. As a scholar of comparative literature, Kaminski's research is focused on the literature of Goethezeit, Chinese modernism, and contemporary science-fiction.

• Introduction1: Joys and Sorrows of Interpretation2: The Translator, Translated3: Revolutionary Afterlives4: Thanatological RevenantsClosing RemarksBibliography

Lives and Deaths of Werther is an impressive piece of comparative literary scholarship. Working with and translating original texts in German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese, Kaminski explores how, through what he terms literary embedded "grafting", critical and creative responses to Goethe's novel embedded the the mutable Werther in world literary culture.