by Theodor Fontane · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402091642
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«Effi Briest» is the novel by German writer Theodor Fontane, published by Bruguera in its 1982 edition in paperback (351 pages, in Spanish).
Set in nineteenth-century Prussia, it follows Effi Briest, married very young to Baron von Innstetten, an older man, and moved to a coastal town. Her vitality clashes with the strict moral code of the Prussian aristocracy, which ultimately shapes her fate. It is a critique of social conventions and the repression of the era.
Novel originally published in 1895; this Spanish edition, translated by F. de Ocampo, belongs to the Libro Amigo collection (no. 963).
Readers of nineteenth-century European classics and novels of social criticism will appreciate this work.
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.
