The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and
great universities of late-eighteenth-century Germany. It tells the
true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous
student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet
Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his heart's
heart, his spirit's guide -- a plain, simple child named Sophie von
Kuhn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their
brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How
can this be?The irrationality of love, the transfiguration of the
commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's
own fate -- these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes
treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor unique to
the art of Penelope Fitzgerald. This new edition features an
introduction by Candia McWilliam.
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