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Mathilde Möhring
Theodor Fontane; Edited by Rachael Huener; Afterword by Helen Chambers
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R1,924
Discovery Miles 19 240
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The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously
published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and
confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still
resonate today. Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel
Mathilde Möhring because he believed it was too modern for his
readership. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive
economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the
burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with
readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the
underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their
small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to
middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first
choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd yet limited understanding of
class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and
catastrophic. The last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female
protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German
novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We
follow the flawed but fearless Mathilde from the bustling
metropolis of Berlin to Woldenstein, a sleepy backwater town she
single-handedly transforms, and back. Unknown in the
English-speaking world, this compact work has the humor and pathos
familiar to readers of Fontane, and is powerfully evocative of the
politics of class, gender, and religion in late 19th-century
Germany. Also included are an introduction, an afterword, and
extensive endnotes that richly contextualize the work for both
general readers and students of literature, history, gender
studies, and German studies.
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Stine (Hardcover)
Theodor Fontane
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R1,030
Discovery Miles 10 300
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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