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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgeralds crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.
The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his fathers permission to wed his hearts heart, his spirits guidea plain, simple child named Sophievon K?n. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be?
Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing ones own fate these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor.
An extraordinary imagining . . . an original Times
An astonishing bookFitzgeralds greatest York Times Book Review
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780544359451
Language: English
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