The art of Fontane

Back cover: "The art of Fontane, German novelist of the nineteenth century, is a moralist of art, made of subtle psychology and balance, an art as reminiscent of the tradition" realistic "As such. spontaneously joined the great European novel.
But it is a "realism" special than Fontane; a realism that leaves room for legends, dreams, anxieties of the interior life. Sensible reality doubles as an imaginary component of a spiritual world. [...] The four novels published in this volume are among the most beautiful and richest of the writer. "