
Unterm Birnbaum
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Abel Hradscheck, ein verschuldeter Dorfknecht und Wirt, findet die Leiche eines französischen Soldaten unter seinem Birnbaum. In einem verzweifelten Versuch, seine finanziellen Schwierigkeiten zu lösen, inszeniert er den Tod eines polnischen Handlungsreisenden, Szulski, der seine Schulden eintreiben sollte. Szulskis Verschwinden löst einen Strudel aus Verwirrung und Verdacht im Dorf aus, der Hradscheck immer stärker in seinen Bann zieht. Der Roman zeichnet ein düsteres Bild von ländlichem Leben im 19. Jahrhundert, geprägt von Armut, Intrigen und den dunklen Seiten menschlicher Natur. Fontane verwebt meisterhaft die Elemente des Kriminalromans mit subtilen Sozialkommentaren, die die sozialen Spannungen und Moralvorstellungen der Zeit widerspiegeln. Hradschecks Täuschung lässt ihn mit dem ständigen Gefühl der Schuld und dem Schrecken des Unbekannten zurück. Der Roman verfolgt ihn durch seine verzweiflung und zeigt, wie schwer es ist, sich dem Gewicht der Vergangenheit zu entziehen, selbst wenn die Wahrheit verborgen bleibt.Book Details
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Theodor Fontane
Germany
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known tod...
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