![]() ![]() ![]() As his political career progresses, Friedrich’s love for Sophie remains strong, though it is never fully realized. Despite his love for Sophie, Friedrich also has a deep interest in philosophy and science, which leads him to pursue a career in politics. The Blue Flower follows the life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a young and brilliant German author, who is deeply in love with Sophie, a girl much younger than himself and who is engaged to another man. This book, published in 1995, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and is considered one of the best novels by this author. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald is the story of the extraordinary life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a poet, philosopher and statesman of the late eighteenth century, better known as Novalis. ![]()
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