by Theodor Fontane · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423026284
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«Effi Briest» is the novel by Theodor Fontane, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (448 pages, in German).
Effi, a young woman from the Prussian rural nobility, agrees to marry a much older man and settles in a small town on the Baltic. Isolation and social conventions push her into a clandestine relationship whose consequences resurface years later. It is an ironic portrait of nineteenth-century Prussian society and its moral codes.
The novel was originally published in 1895; this 1997 edition belongs to the «Bibliothek der Erstausgaben» collection and includes an epilogue by Joseph Kiermeier-Debre.
It is a read for those approaching nineteenth-century German literature and European classics, and it also appears on school curricula.
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve into topics that were more or less taboo for discussion in the polite society of Fontane's day, including marital infidelity, class differences, urban vs. rural differences, abandonment of children, and suicide. His novels sold well during his lifetime and several have been adapted for film or audio works.
