What: Penelope Fitzgerald, novel, set in late-eighteenth-century Germany, Friedrich von Hardenberg (later famous poet Novalis), age of Goethe, besotted with a dullard, romantic era, eccentric family, the nature of genius, political turmoil, funny, sad, clever clever clever.
Representative quote: "Here among the table-linen, I am disturbed by Fritz Hardenberg's young sister. This is the sort of thing I meant to avoid."
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