by Theodor Fontane · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548045238
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«Frau Jenny Treibel» is the social novel by the German writer Theodor Fontane, published by Ullstein in paperback, in German.
The novel centers on Jenny Treibel, a lady of Berlin’s haute bourgeoisie, and on the relationships in her circle, shaped by expediency, money, and class differences. With irony and humor, Fontane observes the values of a society that combines sentiment and ambition, and exposes the contradictions of a bourgeoisie that measures everything by its social position.
The original full title is Frau Jenny Treibel oder „Wo sich Herz zum Herzen find't. The work is part of the Ullstein Buch series, no. 4523.
For those approaching the classics of nineteenth-century German literature and for reading it in a school context.
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.
