Der Roman Effi Briest von Theodor Fontane erschien 1896 als Buch. Effi Briest heiratet als 17-j�hrige auf Zureden ihrer Mutter den mehr als doppelt so alten Baron von Innstetten. Vereinsamt in ihrer gl�cklosen Ehe, fl�chtet Effi Briest in eine Aff�re mit einem Offizier. Jahre sp�ter erf�hrt der Ehemann von der Liaison, t�tet den Liebhaber seiner Frau im Duell, und Effi wird nicht nur vom geh�rnten Ehemann, sondern auch von den Eltern (zun�chst) versto�en, von ersterem wegen eines �berholten Ehrenkodex, ...
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Der Roman Effi Briest von Theodor Fontane erschien 1896 als Buch. Effi Briest heiratet als 17-j�hrige auf Zureden ihrer Mutter den mehr als doppelt so alten Baron von Innstetten. Vereinsamt in ihrer gl�cklosen Ehe, fl�chtet Effi Briest in eine Aff�re mit einem Offizier. Jahre sp�ter erf�hrt der Ehemann von der Liaison, t�tet den Liebhaber seiner Frau im Duell, und Effi wird nicht nur vom geh�rnten Ehemann, sondern auch von den Eltern (zun�chst) versto�en, von ersterem wegen eines �berholten Ehrenkodex, von letzteren wegen ihres b�rgerlichen Moralkodex.
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I reached my 73rd year before hearing of this book, and discovering that it's considered to be a high point in the 19th century German novel. That got me to thinking, "What are the others?" And I realized that there are very few. While Russian, French, and English writers of that century poured out countless novels, German writers were much more involved in short fiction, poetry, and drama. That in itself--the fact that Effi Briest is something of an historical anomaly--strikes me as a compelling reason to read it. It's a novel of infidelity, sometimes compared to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, but with an entirely different narrative strategy, as the author doesn't take the reader into his confidence until quite late in the book. Fontane makes little effort to endear his heroine to us, yet her rather pathetic fate is quite moving at the end. As a study of the pychology of marriage, the book has much to offer. Is it up to the standards of the greatest European novels of its time? Possibly not, yet it is a book well worth knowing.
