Cosa significa il giovane V.???? , Sono così confuso, V. significa Vagabondo?
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di Krayeator
Cosa significa il giovane V.???? , Sono così confuso, V. significa Vagabondo?
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di Krayeator
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V is his name
V. is Werther’s friend Wilhelm.
Initials are used in letters or diaries in case they are read by a third party.
It is used as an abbreviation of the name, so the person stays anonymus. So it could be Victor for example.
You will find a lot more of these in the book 🙂
Not in any way familiar with *Die Leiden des jungen Werther*, but it might just be the name of mentioned youth? Like *Die Marquise von O…* ‘censors’ the place where she is from, here, the exact name is ‘censored’?
Since it’s a capital letter it’s probably the first letter of that person’s name.
I’m hardly an expert but a short look into the text told me that V is just an abbreviated name for a minor character. Goethe used the initial as a tool to make the format credible. It might have been polite to talk about a casual encounter in a pseudonymous way.
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Personally I prefer Herr K.