Irrungen Wirrungen, Berliner Roman: Diversions and Entanglements, A Berlin Novel (translation) (English and German Edition)

By Theodor Fontane

Book Overview

PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this "sparkling, tender, delicately ironic" portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692005439
• ISBN13: 9780692005439
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Quillcox Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

a very great, very quiet novel

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.