Theodor Fontane

Fontane (1883), painting by [[Carl Breitbach]] Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. Many of his novels delve into topics that were more or less taboo for discussion in the polite society of Fontane's day, including marital infidelity, class differences, urban vs. rural differences, abandonment of children, and suicide. His novels sold well during his lifetime and several have been adapted for film or audio works.

Fontane's novels are known for their complex, often sceptical view of society in the German empire. He shows different social and political parts of society meeting and sometimes clashing, his main characters range from lower-middle class to Prussian nobility. Fontane is known as a writer of realism, not only because he was conscientious about the factual accuracy of details in fictional scenes, but also because he depicted his characters in terms of what they said or did and refrained from overtly imputing motives to them. Other trademarks of Fontane's work are their strongly drawn female characters (such as ''Effi Briest'' and ''Frau Jenny Treibel''), tender irony and vivid conversations between characters. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1963
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1997
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1871
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1978
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1928
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1961
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 2010
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1998
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1964
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1969
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1930
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1997
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1994
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1995
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1954
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1972
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by Fontane, Theodor
Published 1988
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