Mavi Çiçek

The Blue Flower is the story of Fritz von Harderberg, a young girl who will later become Novalis, one of the greatest romantic poets and thinkers of her time, in the provincial and university towns between Leipzig and Berlin at the end of the eighteenth century. When the passionate and idealistic Fritz becomes engaged to twelve-year-old Sophie von Kühn, whom he calls 'my very heart' and 'my true philosophy', the embodiment of all his longings, he begins a relationship that surprises and disturbs his family and friends, but brings him unexpected happiness. A fictional biography written based on real documents, letters and diaries, The Blue Flower touches on the irrationality of love and genius with a sweet and abstract sarcasm. The subtle, sensitive and understated narrative seen in all of Penelope Fitzgerald's works emerges in a mature form in this book. In this book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in England in 1997, the author, in a skillfully condensed language that has been purified of all excess, tells us how important infinite forgiveness and boundless tolerance are. 'The world has to romanticize. This is the only way we can recapture its original meaning.' This expression, one of Novalis's foremost thoughts, is handled in The Blue Flower with a competence that only true works of art can achieve.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type : 2. Dough

Number of Pages : 240

Dimensions : 12.5 x 19.5

First Printing Year : 2018

Number of Printings : 1st Edition