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Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane (2011, Trade Paperback) New
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781590173749
- Book Title
- Irretrievable
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Sagas, Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the attractive married couple at the center of this engrossing novel by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be more unalike. Irretrievable is a nuanced, urbane, affectionate, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173740
ISBN-13
9781590173749
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92345174
Product Key Features
Book Title
Irretrievable
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Sagas, Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pt1863.U6513 2011
Reviews
"A minor masterpiece of translation. . . " -The Times Literary Supplement "No writer of past or present stirs in me that kind of sympathy and gratitude, that immediate, instinctive delight, that reflex gaiety, warmth, and satisfaction, which I feel reading any of Fontane's verse, any line of his letters, any scrap of dialogue." -Thomas Mann , "[ Irretrievable is] one of Fontane's most idiosyncratic achievements, and certainly one of the finest literary autopsies of a foundering relationship&. The pleasure of the novel lies in its subtlety-in this case, a discreet exploration of marital psychology. Here again, trouble starts within and, like a dry rot, eats its way outward&.But even after the couple ostensibly reconcile, there's really nothing left; by the end of this mild yet anguished work, all that remains of the marriage is a lifeless residue of thwarted yearning-'nothing but the willingness to be happy.' As so often in the fiction of Theodor Fontane, that's not enough to save the characters, but it's a marvellous subject for a novel." Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker "A minor masterpiece of translation. . . " -The Times Literary Supplement "No writer of past or present stirs in me that kind of sympathy and gratitude, that immediate, instinctive delight, that reflex gaiety, warmth, and satisfaction, which I feel reading any of Fontane's verse, any line of his letters, any scrap of dialogue." -Thomas Mann , "[ Irretrievable is] one of Fontane's most idiosyncratic achievements, and certainly one of the finest literary autopsies of a foundering relationship…. The pleasure of the novel lies in its subtlety-in this case, a discreet exploration of marital psychology. Here again, trouble starts within and, like a dry rot, eats its way outward….But even after the couple ostensibly reconcile, there's really nothing left; by the end of this mild yet anguished work, all that remains of the marriage is a lifeless residue of thwarted yearning-'nothing but the willingness to be happy.' As so often in the fiction of Theodor Fontane, that's not enough to save the characters, but it's a marvellous subject for a novel." Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker "A minor masterpiece of translation. . . " -The Times Literary Supplement "No writer of past or present stirs in me that kind of sympathy and gratitude, that immediate, instinctive delight, that reflex gaiety, warmth, and satisfaction, which I feel reading any of Fontane's verse, any line of his letters, any scrap of dialogue." -Thomas Mann
Copyright Date
2011
Afterword by
Lopate, Phillip
Lccn
2010-033640
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