Author : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131133
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)
Book Synopsis Beyond Atonement by : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Download or read book Beyond Atonement written by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th-century novel of adultery and remorse. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) was celebrated even in her own lifetime as Austria's foremost nineteenth-century woman writer.Beyond Atonement (Unsühnbar, 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.