| Beyond Atonement Contributor(s): Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie Von (Author), Van Ornam, Vanessa (Translator), Van Ornam, Vanessa (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1571131132 ISBN-13: 9781571131133 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 833.8 |
| LCCN: 96042230 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) was celebrated even in her own lifetime as Austria's foremost nineteenth-century woman writer.Beyond Atonement (Unshnbar, 1889), loosely based on an actual event in a high-class Austrian family, is a novel about adultery: Maria marries Hermann Dornach, though she is in love with Felix Tessin; two years later, she commits adultery with Tessin, conceiving a child whom she alone knows to be illegitimate; when her husband and their legitimate son die in an accident, she reveals her infidelity. Her unforgiving family and her own remorse set Maria apart from the protagonists of other nineteenth-century novels of adultery such as Goethe's Elective Affinities and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Beyond Atonement is a companion piece to Ebner's best-known tale of village life, Their Pavel (Das Gemeindekind), also published by Camden House.Dr VANESSA VAN ORNAM is a translator for the city government of Berlin. |