Instead, he’s consumed in his diary by girls, partying, the Goethe book that is shaking his soul and the professor who won’t give him a break - but mostly girls.Ī Nebraska native, Zelazny, 31, worked on the book for 10 years after spending a semester at sea himself in 2004, when he was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. But, like so many college kids, Mike is too self-involved to linger very long on the places he’s seeing and cultures he’s experiencing. It follows four months of Mike’s journal entries, with quick-draw impressions of ports of call in Cuba, India and Japan. The novel reimagines Goethe’s doomed, dreaming hero as a college student on a semester at sea in the early ’00s. Six and a half decades later, Goethe has inspired the burgeoning literary career of Aspen’s John Zelazny, who drew on Goethe’s first novel, “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” for a parody treatment in his own fiction debut, “The Sorrows of Young Mike.” The gathering to celebrate the 200th birthday of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe led to the founding of the Aspen Music Festival and the Aspen Institute, and it provided the foundation of what became known as the “Aspen Idea.” It was the “big bang” moment for modern Aspen.
In 1949, luminaries from 46 states and 11 countries came to Aspen for the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation. Aspenite John Zelazny recently released his debut novel, "The Sorrows of Young Mike."
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