Assessing Goethe\u27s narrative ruptures, this essay follows their trail in three directions: first through the editor\u27s sudden interruption of Werther producing the post-epistolary multiplicity of voices, second in the alterations Goethe made to the 1787 version of Werther that enhance the theme of rupture itself, and third along the fault-lines delineated in three exemplary letters of nature from Werther
