The blue flower is the latest novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. An exquisite work, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, in which the passion of romanticism merges with the temperance of a masterful writing. When Friedrich von Hardenberg, who later would take the name of Novalis, talks about the blue flower to his beloved Sophie, a twelve-year-old girl who falls in love at a first meeting, she does so in the mysterious, secret tone of who has not yet deciphered the meaning of what will be the symbol of German romanticism. Fritz is a brilliant young man, a genius. He has studied dialectics and mathematics, he is a friend of the critic Schlegel, of the philosopher Fichte and of the great Goethe, and now he has to accept a job he does not want as an inspector of salt mines. He writes poetry, he has started a novel and, above all, he wants to be happy with his "wisdom", the young ...read more
