Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen)
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A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane In this classic novel--one of the pillars of German... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1595691251
ISBN13:9781595691255
Release Date:February 2009
Publisher:MONDIAL
Length:140 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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a very great, very quiet novel
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Fontane reminds me of Chekhov in that he shows, on the surface, the indifferent passage of time, and also, resisting it, human wishes and desires trying to strike out on their own. Here, Botho, an impoverished young nobleman, is having an affair with Lene, a young working-class woman. So far, typical for the time depicted. The problem is that the two of them love each other, and it is this love, as it fights or adapts to the currents of their lives, that transforms them and the novel.
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