The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - German - Theodor Fontane

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - German

By Theodor Fontane

  • Release Date: 2010-11-30
  • Genre: Short Stories

The fact that newspaper reporters commonly call their articles stories points to a certain analogy between the novel and the newspaper. Even when prose fiction aims to be a fine art, it readily takes on a journalistic character; it is usually designed for immediate effect--at the concomitant risk of producing no other--and it easily passes from hand to hand or from country to country. In our day prose fiction is almost an international phenomenon: novels of a high degree of popularity are immediately translated and promptly imitated in the most distant quarters of the globe. In the universal give and take of literary commodities Germany has played her part and, from time to time at least, has been in no wise a debtor nation; but she has more often followed than led along new paths, making up in thoroughness what she lacked in originality, and a superficial history of the German novel would be little more than a record of how successive foreign influences were turned to account in domestic production.

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