by Theodor Fontane · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413930374
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«Effi Briest» is the German realist novel by Theodor Fontane, published by RBA in hardcover (299 pages, in Spanish).
Effi Briest is a young woman from the Prussian aristocracy whose life is subjected to the strict moral code of her environment. Her marriage to a much older man, social pressure and an adultery trigger a conflict that will mark her destiny. The novel portrays the prejudices and hypocrisies of nineteenth-century German society.
Originally published in 1895; this edition belongs to RBA's Novelas Eternas collection.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and European realism interested in female psychology and social criticism.
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.
