The blue flower
By: Penelope Fitzgerald.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Novalis, 1772-1801 -- Relations with women -- Fiction; Kühn, Sophie von, 1782-1797 -- Fiction; Poets, German -- Fiction; Germany -- History -- 1740-1806 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A fictionalized biography of the 18th Century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuhn, 12, who became his muse, but who died of tuberculosis before they could marry. By the author of The Gates of Angels.
Notes: "A Mariner original."