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Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane (Paperback, 2011)
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Title: Irretrievable. Author: Theodor Fontane. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2011. Topic: Classic Fiction. Language: English. Item Weight: 295g. Item Width: 16mm.
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Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the attractive married couple at the center of this engrossing vel by one of Germany's greatest velists, could t be more unalike. Christine is a serious soul from a devoutly religious background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his wife's deeper feelings and better wisdom. They live in a beautiful large house overlooking the sea, which they built themselves, and have been happily married for twenty-three years-only of late a certain tension has crept into their dealings with each other. Little jokes, casual endearments, long-meditated plans: they all hit a raw nerve. How a couple can slowly drift apart until one day they find themselves in a situation that is beyond recall, from which they cant go back, is at the heart of this timeless story of everyday life. Theodor Fontane's great gift is to tell the story effectively in his characters' own words, listening to how they talk and fail to talk to each other, watching them turn away from their own true feelings as much as from each other. Irretrievable is a nuanced, urbane, affectionate, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.Product Identifiers
PublisherNyrb Classics, The New York Review of Books, Inc
ISBN-101590173740
ISBN-139781590173749
eBay Product ID (ePID)107725469
Product Key Features
AuthorTheodor Fontane
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Weight292g
Height203mm
Width128mm
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationNew York
Spine15mm
Translated byDouglas Parmee
Author BiographyTheodor Fontane (1819-1898) was a great historical novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer of nineteenth-century Germany Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, and of the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Douglas Parmee (1914-2008) translated works by Flaubert, Zola, Baudelaire, and Chamfort, among others, including the NYRB Classics titles The Child by Jules Valle's and Afloat by Guy de Maupassant.
Date of Publication28/04/2011
Edition StatementMain
Country of PublicationUnited States
