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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. Pages have tanning. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Blue Flower is set in the small provincial and university towns between Leipzig and Berlin at the very end of the eighteenth century. It tells the story of the young and brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg a graduate of the Universities of Jena Leipzig and Wittenberg learned in Dialectics and Mathematics who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father’s permission to announce his engagement to his ‘heart’s heart’ his ‘true Philosophy’ the embodiment of all his yearnings twelve-year-old Sophie von K?hn. It is a betrothal which amuses astounds and disturbs his family and friends. How can it be so? The Blue Flower touches with a sweet absurd humour on the illogicality of love and the irrationality of genius. (The philosopher Fichte the critic Schlegel and Goethe himself all have walk-on parts.) There is the same delicacy craftsmanship and lightness of touch that have characterised all Penelope Fitzgerald’s books the same astonishing ability to evoke a time and a place; but here all inessentials have been stripped away everything is condensed the author’s purposes – obliquely approached but all the more surprising when they are revealed – ever more mysterious. It teaches – in so far as it deliberately teaches anything at all – the necessity for perpetual forgiveness and for ceaseless astonishment at our fellow human beings and their bravery in living. (SP)