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2016-03-23 11:34:43 Post No. 7842412
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2016-03-23 11:34:43
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Searching for a novel. The excerpt was in one of my textbooks, and every now and again it'll come to my mind and bug me.
I've no exact details. It was next to Sorrows of Young Werther, and also by theme it's probably romanticism or at least early realism. Probably buldungsroman, German or French. English less likely.
I'm almost certain it was written in first person. It was about a very shy older boy. He's acting too young for his age, a bit spoiled and very attached to his mother. He gets send to his room while his parents entertain some visitors and he cries passionately for his mother to come and give him his good night kiss. Mother never comes and he falls to sleep in tears. I believe he blames his father for all this, but that part is less detailed in my memory. The majority of the excerpt was about him pitying himself.
