The Blue Flower

Name: The Blue Flower
Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd
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Penelope Fitzgerald(Autor*in)

Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 7. März 2013

320 Seiten

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'Innocence' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie.

Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father's permission to announce his engagement to his 'heart's heart', his 'true Philosophy', twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. It is a betrothal which amuses, astounds and disturbs his family and friends. How can it be so?

One of the most admired of all Penelope Fitzgerald's books, The Blue Flower was chosen as Book of the Year more than any other in 1995. Her final book, it confirmed her reputation as one of the finest novelists of the century.

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Praise for Penelope Fitzgerald and The Blue Flower:

'The Blue Flower is a model of what historical fiction can be at its best - when the radical otherness of other times is not merely acknowledged but made integral to the fictional experience. It's also Fitzgerald at her best - elegant, inventive, hilarious, unsparing. I adore this book.' Jonathan Franzen

'Quite extraordinarily good. She can make a reader helpless with inordinate private laughter.' AS Byatt

'[Penelope Fitzgerald's] work is subtle, funny, wrong-footing, and cumulatively powerful.' Julian Barnes

'An enchanting novel about heart, body and mind. The writing is ellipitical and witty... so that what could be a sad little love story is constantly funny and always absorbing. This novel is a jewel.' Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph

'It is hard to see how the hopes and defeats of Romanticism, or the relation between inspiration and common life, between genius and mere worthiness, could be more deftly rendered than they are in this remarkable novel.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

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