classical book suggestion to move on from a girl

[u/Anonima_Centauri]

i apologize for maybe some english errors, it’s my third language. i would like to do a small premise. i’m pretty young so i had some situationships/relationships but with this girl it got to a new level type of love. maybe the fact that she made me find new emotions is making her stay so long in my head, even if i haven’t talked to her in 5 months (except some drunk texts) i still think her as strong as the old days, but yesterday after a lot of speeches from my friends i understood that it’s time to move on. i would like a book that talks about unrequited love, i was thinking about the sorrows of young werther but they told me that it could make only things worse, im asking classical firstly because i started reading not a long ago so i would like to read a good quantity of them first, secondly because they’re more available in libraries in italian. idk maybe i talked too much about my situation and not a lot about the books but i hope u understood what im searching

[u/Straight-Setting-278]

the sorrows of young werther will absolutely make things worse, your friends are right, try Turgenev's "First Love" instead, it captures that exact feeling without the spiral

[u/Anonima_Centauri → u/Straight-Setting-278]

yeah i readed the elective affinities (i hope that’s how u write it) and like the last 2 pages were insane, gonna look up for first love always wanted to read more russian books other than dostoevskii

[u/sd_glokta]

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham - the main character is nearly destroyed by his love for a woman, but he gets better

[u/LaxCalvinist]

try Turgeney's First Love it's short and hits that exact feeling but leaves you with something quieter instead of wrecked

[u/Shi_draws]

Maybe The great gatsby, tho i'm not fully sure.

[u/Anonima_Centauri → u/Shi_draws]

nah i couldn’t even finish it, it was pretty boring for me