5/21/2023 0 Comments The blue flower fitzgerald![]() ![]() As ever, I’ll be keen to hear opinions about that and any other subjects you’d like to discuss. I have a feeling there’s going to be a great deal to discuss in The Blue Flower, but let’s keep our options open and consider touching on The Beginning of Spring later on in the month. We’ll be able to say more about what to make of that as we read through the book. This is also a novel with a fascinating, if difficult, subject: the early German Romantic philosopher Novalis and his love for a teenage girl. Novelist Andrew Miller says it is “impeccable” and when the book came out in 1995 poet and translator Michael Hoffman wrote in the New York Times that it is “hard to know where to begin to praise the book” before also declaring it a masterpiece. Frank Kermode wrote in a 2010 introduction to the book that it is “the finest work of this extraordinarily gifted novelist”. Fitzgerald biographer Hermione Lee has called The Blue Flower her subject’s “beautiful masterpiece”. ![]() For a start, it has been showered with praise. ![]()
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