by Penelope Fitzgerald · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006550198
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«The Blue Flower» is Penelope Fitzgerald's historical novel, published by Flamingo in paperback (226 pages, in English).
In late eighteenth-century Germany, Fritz von Hardenberg, a brilliant young man who will become the poet and philosopher Novalis, announces his engagement to Sophie von Kühn, a twelve-year-old girl. The news bewilders his family and friends; the narrative thus explores idealism, love, and German Romanticism.
This edition includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam and won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the novel was originally published in 1995.
For readers of historical and literary fiction with an interest in German Romanticism and fictionalized biographies of writers.
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."
