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    Effi Briest: Roman (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)

    By Theodor Fontane and Peer Trilcke

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    Theodor Fontanes Roman "Effi Briest"ist weit mehr als "das gültige, bleibende Dokument einer Gesellschaft, eines Zeitalters" (Heinrich Mann). Es ist der über seine Zeit hinaus gültige Versuch, den Weg eines Menschen verstehend nachzuzeichnen, der ins Unglück führt. Fontane gelingt dies ohne Pathos und Anklage, aber mit liebenswürdiger Ironie, in trefflichen Dialogen und mit Anteilnahme an den Personen - auch an denen, die versagen.

    Text aus Reclams Universal-Bibliothek mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe.
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherReclam Verlag
    Release dateJul 9, 2012
    ISBN9783159600277
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    Effi Briest: Roman (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)
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    Theodor Fontane

    Der weltbekannte Autor Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) ist bis heute einer der wichtigsten deutschsprachigen Autoren und wird immer noch gern gelesen. Effi Briest ist das bekannteste Werk von ihm.

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    • 4/5
      Ich weiß nicht, ob ich den Roman auch schon zu Thomas Manns Zeiten als einen der sechs oder zehn besten aller Zeiten bezeichnet hätte.Für mich ist es ein interessantes (fiktives) Bild eines Teils der Gesellschaft Ende des 18.Jahrhunderts. Allerdings liest er sich immer noch ganz interessant und flott, auch wenn das Handeln oder die Motivation der ProtagonistInnen nicht mehr so richtig nachvollziehbar ist.Am besten haben mir die Monologe und Dialoge von Effi, ihren Eltern und Instetten gefallen, die es trotz der Zeit, die zwischen dem Buch und mir liegt, ein Mitdenken möglich machen. An Handlung passiert nicht viel.
    • 3/5
      Honestly, I read this because Thomas Mann said it was great. Not good, great. I hesitate to disagree with him, so I'm willing to consider translation issues as the problem. Maybe ejaculations like 'speaking of which' and 'by the way' and 'meanwhile' and so on are/were natural in late nineteenth century German? Maybe the dialogue is less stilted in its native tongue? Maybe the symbolism is less heavy handed than the translation makes it appear?
      Certainly the endless jackbooting of 'society' would have made more sense at the time the book was written; but it's hard for me to feel much anger at 'society' today. We could probably do with a bit more moral straitjacketing, let's be honest, and a little less you-are-a-unique-and-special-snowflake. You're not. Fontane is obviously a smart enough man not to fall for it too hard, which makes the book worthwhile. But compared to Madame Bovary... well, it's a bit clumsy, and I'd rather re-read Flaubert than re-read this.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of young girl, really still playing with girlfriends, who is married off to an old man. In fact the fellow used to date the girls mother. The young girl is full of life and loves to be outdoors and involved in adventurous activities. She soon is married off, moves far away to an area where she doesn’t fit in and is lonely as she discovers herself to be married to a workaholic. Her only friends and companions is the Newfoundland dog Rollo and her servant who she found on a bench in the cemetery in a fit of melancholy. This is a story that is compared to Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. I liked this one best. Anna is a good story but a little long and tedious at times. Emma (Madame Bovary) was not likeable. This story is enjoyable, reads quickly and you can’t help but like Effie. A sad story. .
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. I really liked the main character and thought she was drawn very well. In fact, all the characters were well realised, very human and believable. I liked Effi's youth and self assurance that was actually naivety, and thought the description of her change following the life changing event, that is really only ever hinted at throughout the book, no need for passionate or salacious details, was very well executed. The whole book models the politesse of 19th century society, where nothing is discussed in the open, but everyone understands what is going on under the surface. Effi starts out a child, confident that her bizarre marriage to her mother's former beau is something she is in control of. The realities of separation from her family and childhood home change her outlook on life, and the lifestyle her much older husband follows does not sit well with her effervescent character. Small wonder that her head is turned. The events that follow are tragic, and all involved are aware of the tragedy but are bound by the inevitability of the actions society demands of them. Effi changes completely, resigned to her fate. She reminds me in some ways of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace. Of the two other 19th century 'adultery novels' I've read (Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary), this one was the most sympathetic. I felt for all of the characters in each of their situations. I think this is because none of them is self-centred or arrogant in the ways Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary are. All of them are flawed, but each cares about the effects their flaws have on those closest to them. Well worth reading.
    • 4/5
      Although this was a sad story, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters were well developed and the plot was such that it held your interest to the very end. The novel was also an excellent look at the political and social times of the late 19th century Germany. Effi's transgression was more of a sin against the social code as we are never told the depth of the affair. It was interesting to learn about the different gender roles and a look at a young woman married to a man twice her age. I look forward to reading more of Theodor Fontane's works.
    • 4/5
      I can see why this annoys so many people at school. Fontane provides a lot of excuses for the mistakes his characters make, but he doesn't really manage to make them likeable. Effi is bright, clever, pretty, but in essence a spoilt, vain teenager; Innstetten is stiff and official most of the time, and Crampas only really gets one scene in which he has something interesting to say. And it is difficult to sympathise with the trouble they make for themselves: Effi so effectively manages to conceal whatever she has done from the reader that we feel rather cheated when we find that she has kept some incriminating evidence for Innstetten to find, while Innstetten has plenty of good reasons to find some less baroque way of settling the matter than pistols in the dunes. There isn't much story, either: the whole thing could easily have been done in 25 pages by Kleist, for instance. If I'd read this at the over-literal age of 17, I'd probably have hated it too.So why is it such an appealing novel after all? It is, definitely appealing, so there must be something more to it than the storyline. I think it comes down to Fontane's style and the clever way he mixes realism with symbolic motifs. We may not like Effi, but we understand her and the other characters as an integral part of the north German landscape. The story clearly has to take the shape it does, and we come to the final chapters waiting for the swing, the plane trees and the Rondell to come back. The strange, slightly spooky quality of Kessin seems odd in the abstract — what could be less spooky than a flat, windy Baltic beach resort? — but in context it makes perfect sense that everything there happens at a slightly higher level of intensity than elsewhere. The sunny innocence of Hohen-Cremmen and the official briskness of Berlin (where seven years can pass in the space between two sentences) make perfect sense too. It's basically just the translation of ballad form to prose...
    • 5/5
      Beautifully unfolded story of a young woman's confining marriage, ill-considered affair, and the consequences unleashed when the affair becomes known. Tragic, but in the tones of a comedy of manners.
    • 2/5
      I believe this book is the bane of existence for many, many students in Germany. (Didn't most of us have to read this at some point? Didn't most of us fall asleep at least five times with this book in our hands?)Having read other works by Fontane I know that he wasn't a "bad author" and deserves all the praise he gets; he was and still is definitely a key figure in German literature. What some people seem to like about this book is exactly what stopped me from enjoying it - the painfully detailed descriptions of landscapes, houses, things in- and outside the houses, people ...., as well as the main character Effi herself. She goes from being naive and apathetic to scared and apathetic and finally settles for being nothing but apathetic. Of course opinions differ on that matter but to me Effi is a pretty unlikable character. Even considering the way she was brought up and the things that happen to her throughout the story, I still wasn't able to establish any kind of connection with or even feel sorry for her.There are, however, a few interesting aspects in the story that made me read the whole book: Effi's husband Innstetten and the means that he goes to to make sure that Effi depends on him not only physically and in the eyes of society but also psychologically (the way he reacts to her fear of the "ghost"), as well as his views and decisions towards the end.These are wonderful examples for typical traits of literary realism (as well as the above mentioned often painfully long, detailed descriptions).All that is left to say after finishing the book is "... that is too big a subject."
    • 4/5
      I was not all that familiar with either this book or Fontane before reading it, but I had a general idea that it was something like Madame Bovary. And, indeed, it is; but only to a point. It's as if Fontane wanted to be Flaubert, but just couldn't bear to be as cruel as all that to his characters. With some minor exceptions (.e.g Sidonie), Fontane gives every character at least a modicum of decency or some slight redemptive quality. Also interesting was the structure of the novel itself. Although often referred to solely as a realist work, Fontane here takes a great deal of liberty with time and setting, often eliding supposedly essential details and placing gaps of years between scenes. By doing so, Fontane gives the work both a more episodic and elliptical form, which I enjoyed immensely, but I can see how this can bother other readers. My main complaint had to do with the nature of the dialog, especially Effie's: I usually blamed the narrator, but after a while, I wasn't so sure. I was, it should be noted, reading the 1967 translation, so perhaps in the most recent one, this is no longer a problem, but it did lessen some enjoyment of the book. But, all in all, a recommended work.
    • 4/5
      as good as it's touted as being. i love that it doesn't have a harmonious or typical ending for an adultery novel at all, but it's not way out there either...what makes it strange is the ho-hum of it. i honestly prefer this over the much more beloved and famous other versions of this story. cough, anna karenina, cough. yes, i must be an idiot...