Irrungen, Wirrungen

by Theodor Fontane

Book Overview

Trials and Tribulations is a novel written by Theodor Fontane, a German author who is considered one of the most important realist writers of the 19th century. The book tells the story of a young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333025865
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

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.