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Effi Briest ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛfi ˈbʁiːst]) is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane. Published in book form in 1895, Effi Briest marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century marriage from a female perspective, such as Anna Karenina and Madame ...
- Theodor Fontane
- 1894–95; 1895 (book)
- 1894
- Novel
Mar 1, 2004 · A classic German novel about the adulterous affair of a young woman and a married man in 19th century Prussia. Read online or download for free in various formats from Project Gutenberg, a public domain library of eBooks.
- Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898
- Effi Briest
- German
Aug 5, 2019 · Effi Briest is a good book: it is meticulously well put together, pleasantly short for a 19th century realist novel, and has interesting characters whose fates are easy enough to be interested in. But it was published 1895, a few scant years after Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , a book which it has a lot in common with, and a book which is Great ...
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14,101 ratings721 reviews. Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in Penguin Classics. Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil ...
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Effi Briest is a 1895 realist novel by Theodor Fontane about a young Prussian girl who marries a much older man and faces various challenges and tragedies. The novel follows her life from her happy and naive childhood to her loss of innocence, family, health, and happiness. It explores themes of social class, morality, and femininity.
Effi Briest, novel by Theodor Fontane, written in 1891–93; published in installments in the literary and political periodical Deutsche Rundschau from October 1894 to March 1895 and in book form in 1895. Known for its deft characterization and accurate portrayal of Brandenburg society, the novel.
Jun 16, 1977 · Effi Briest: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit. In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.
