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It explains how earlier and delayed recognition shaped Fontane’s emergence as a leading German realist novelist and emphasizes his ability to diagnose Prussian society on the eve of its dissolution. The introduction also situates the novel’s publication history, its source in serialized form, and the decisive influence of English literature and political events on Fontane’s style and themes.","THEODOR FONTANE  \nEɽ Briest  \nTranslated from the German by  \nHUGH RORRISON and HELEN CHAMBERS Introduction and notes by Helen Chambers  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nEFFI BRIEST  \nTHEODOR FONTANE, born in Neuruppin in 1819, was descended from French Huguenot settlers in Brandenburg, and was brought up on the Baltic Sea coast of Prussia before spending most of his life in Berlin. He trained as a pharmacist but in 1849 decided to earn his living as a writer. He spent several years as a foreign correspondent in London and his proliɹc non-ɹction output includes journalism, poetry, theatre reviews, local travelogues of Berlin’s hinterland, unpartisan accounts of Bismarck’s wars and two autobiographical works. He published his ɹrst novel, Before the Storm (1878), at the age of 58 and this was followed by sixteen further novels which established his reputation in the twentieth century as Germany’s ɹnest realist novelist. Fontane’s sensitive portrayals of women’s lives in late nineteenth-century society are unsurpassed in European literature. The Woman taken in Adultery (1882), Cécile (1886), Delusions, Confusions (1888), Jenny Treibel (1892) and Eɽ Briest (1895) focus on problems of love and marriage, while the late works The Poggenpuhl Family (1896) and The Stechlin (1898) provide humorous family portraits of Prussian society in decline. He died in 1898.  \nHUGH RORRISON was educated at Ayr Academy and the universities of Glasgow and Vienna. He has published extensively on modern German theatre. Among his translations are Wedekind’s Lulu Plays  \n(performed at the Almeida Theatre), Pavel Kohout’s Maple Tree Game (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Heiner Müller’s Road to Volokolamsk (BBC Radio 3), Brecht’s Berlin Stories and Journals 1934–55 and Piscator’s The Political Theatre. He lives in Edinburgh and works freelance for radio.  \nHELEN CHAMBERS was educated at Hutchesons’Grammar School, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow. She has taught at the universities of Leeds and Melbourne. Her publications include Supernatural and Irrational Elements in the Works of Theodor Fontane and The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane, and, as editor, a study of Joseph Roth. She is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews.  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \nTranslators’ Note  \nEɽ Briest  \nNotes  \nIntroduction  \nThomas Mann in 1919 said of Eɽ Briest that it belonged among the six most signiɹcant novels ever written. 1 By that time the Wilhelmine Empire evoked in Fontane’s major novels had already become history, and it is Fontane’s achievement to have captured that world on the eve of its dissolution. Its centre was Prussia, much maligned since, but dear to Fontane’s heart, and he has left us, in the voices and lives of a representative few, his diagnosis of the aspirations and ills of a society whose unspectacular decline he saw with the disabused clarity of old age.2  \nWhen Eɽ Briest was published as a book in 1895, after being serialized in the Deutsche Rundschau, its seventy-ɹve-year-old author experienced his ɹrst real literary success. Recognition had been slow in coming to the man who was later to be seen as the greatest German novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann. The reasons were both personal and political. He was born in 1819 in Neuruppin, thirty miles north-west of Berlin, son of the pharmacist Louis Henri and his wife Emilie Fontane, both descendants of the French Huguenot community in Berlin. His most vivid childhood memories are of the Baltic port Swinemünde (today Świnoujście in Poland) where his father took over a chemist’s shop when Fontane  \nwas seven. Swinemünde, a strange combination of stuɽly provincial resort and cosmopolitan seaport, was the model for Kessin in Eɽ Briest. After haphazard schooling Fontane was apprenticed to his father’s trade and qualiɹed as a pharmacist in 1847. There was no capital to set him up in his own business. He decided in 1849 to become a writer and years of struggle followed.  \nFontane was steeped in English lit","cbCaili1nhAklyLi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaili1nhAklyLi","pdf",1354842,4,1,467,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Translators’ Note\n## Eɽ Briest\n## Notes","[{\"question\":\"Who are the translators and editors associated with this edition of Effi Briest?\",\"answer\":\"The edition credits Hugh Rorrison as translator and Helen Chambers as both contributor (introduction and notes) and editor, with their academic and publishing backgrounds described.\"},{\"question\":\"What major biographical turning point led Theodor Fontane to become a writer?\",\"answer\":\"After training as a pharmacist, Fontane decided in 1849 to earn his living as a writer, beginning a period of struggle that ultimately led to wide literary output.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the introduction describe the significance of Effi Briest in relation to its era?\",\"answer\":\"It frames the novel as Fontane’s achievement in capturing Wilhelmine-era Prussian life at a moment before political dissolution, diagnosing the society’s aspirations and ills through representative lives and voices.\"}]","Effi Briest - 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