This book seeks to analyse the transactional relationship between philosophical and literary language and how the tragic is present in Goethe's German epistolary novel The Sufferings of Young Werther. Firstly, it is essential to understand the trajectory of tragedy within the history of philosophy.

In this way, we turn to the Greeks, who were the first to think of tragedy as a necessary element in the formation of man. We follow the trail of tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics, which allows us to come into contact with the primordial elements that the tragic plot possesses.

Based on Nietzsche's conceptions, we will look at the nuances that the German writer Goethe uses to characterise one of the greatest characters in romantic literature, the mal du siècle. Werther contemplates to the extreme the duality conceptualised by Nietzsche, the singularity susceptible to suffering, dream and illusion, in other words, the principle of individuation, as well as the principle of annihilation of being, delirium, pleasure in the artistic, ecstasy for the life that emerges from the force of nature.

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