Ebook {Epub PDF} Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

The classic novel, Effi Briest, by Theodor Fontane follows a young woman’s journey through an arranged marriage, exposed infidelity, and guilt-ridden hardship. Effi Briest, a seventeen-year- old living in nineteenth century Germany, struggles through loneliness, depression, fear, and diminishing health through her planned marriage to a nobleman, Baron Geert von Innstetten, as well as after the troubled . While Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest is definitely and with justification considered a classic and as such a masterpiece of German poetic realism, the author's (and with that also of course the narrator's) at times overtly critical textual distance (which when it materialises does tend to feel and read rather like an emotionless, critical analysis) also renders Effi Briest and by extension author Theodor /5. In Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest () as one of "the six most significant novels ever written." Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and bltadwin.ru by: 3.

In real life Effi Briest would have suffered less, argues Giles MacDonogh, as he rereads Theodor Fontane's masterpiece G i l e s M a c D o n o g h Fri 1 Aug EDT. Fontane concludes that a leader would have to emerge from the working class. Chapter III examines the novel Effi Briest, the story of a young girl who enters into a prearranged marriage with an older civil servant (Beamte) by the name of Geert von Innstetten. Although Effi and Geert are members of the same. 2. Theodor Fontane () was a German novelist and political reporter. Along with Effi Briest, Fontane is remembered for Frau Jenny Treibel, an ironic criticism of middle-class hypocrisy and small-mindedness. Hugh Rorrison has published extensively on modern German theatre and teaches German film at the University of Leeds. Helen Chambers organised the first conference on English translations.

Con Effi Briest, Fontane demuestra brillantemente la verdad de su comentario de que "las historias de las mujeres son generalmente mucho más interesantes". Su tensa e irónica narración representa un mundo en el que la sexualidad y la voluntad de disfrutar de la vida se ahogan por la estrechez mental y la circunstancia. In Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest () as one of "the six most significant novels ever written." Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest. Text, Kommentar und Materialien. Hrsg. von Helmut Nobis. Oldenbourg, München , ISBN (Oldenbourg Textausgaben für Schüler und Lehrer). Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest. Mit einem Nachwort von Julia Franck. Ullstein, Berlin , ISBN Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest. Reclam XL. Text und Kommentar.