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"Irretrievable" ist ein Roman des deutschen Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane, der in der New York Review Books Classics Reihe von Phillip Lopate neu aufgelegt wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im 19. Jahrhundert und dreht sich um die Ehe von Holk, einem dänischen Grafen, und seiner Frau Christine.
Holk, ein pragmatischer Mann, wird nach Kopenhagen geschickt und trifft dort die charmante Ebba von Rosenberg. Währenddessen bleibt Christine zu Hause auf dem Landgut zurück. Die Distanz zwischen den Eheleuten sowie Holks Affäre mit Ebba führen zu einer zunehmenden Entfremdung und Spannungen in ihrer Beziehung.
Fontane beleuchtet die emotionalen und psychologischen Aspekte der Ehe sowie die gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und Zwänge der damaligen Zeit. Der Roman thematisiert die Schwierigkeiten der Kommunikation und das Unvermeidliche des Verlusts in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen.
"Irretrievable" ist eine feinfühlige Erzählung über Liebe, Enttäuschung und die Unumkehrbarkeit bestimmter Entscheidungen im Leben.
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of Neuruppin, where his father owned a small pharmacy. His father's gambling debts forced the family to move repeatedly, and eventually his temperamentally mismatched parents separated. Though Fontane showed early interest in history and literature-jotting down stories into school notebooks-he could not afford to attend university; instead he apprenticed as a pharmacist and eventually settled in Berlin. There he joined the influential literary society Tunnel über der Spree, which included among its members Theodor Storm and Gottfried Keller, and turned to writing. In 1850 Fontane's first published books, two volumes of ballads, appeared; they would prove to be his most successful books during his lifetime. He spent the next four decades working as a critic, journalist, and war correspondent while producing some fifty works of history, travel narrative, and fiction. His early novels, the first of which was published in 1878, when Fontane was nearly sixty, concerned recent historical events. It was not until the late 1880s that he turned to his great novels of modern society, remarkable for their psychological insight: Trials and Tribulations (1888), Irretrievable (1891), Frau Jenny Treibel (1892), and Effi Briest (1895). During his last years, Fontane returned to writing poetry, and, while recovering from a severe illness, wrote an autobiographical novel that would prove to be a late commercial success. He is buried in the French section of the Friedhof II cemetery in Berlin.
Douglas Parmée (1914-2008) was a lecturer in modern languages at Cambridge and a Lifetime Fellow of Queens' College. He translated many works of classic and contemporary literature from French, Italian, and German, receiving the the Scott Moncrieff Prize for French translation in 1976. NYRB Classics publishes his translations of The Child by Jules Vallès, Afloat by Guy de Maupassant, and Nature Stories by Jules Renard.
Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically; and of the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer.
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