Elderflowers

by Wilhelm Raabe

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Genres: Classics

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First published January 25, 1863

About the author

Wilhelm Raabe (1831 - 1910) was a German novelist. His early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus.

Reviews

[Armin]

Der Kommentar bzw. das ausführliche Nachwort zur Wirkungsgeschichte, gerade im Hinblick auf den Antisemitismus des Hungerpastors sind die Hauptattraktion dieser Ausgabe.
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[Jennifer]

Die kurze Novella von Raabe handelt von der Liebe zwischen einem Medizinstudenten und einem jüdischen Mädchen. Handlungsort ist Prag um 1820. Ich bin sehr beeindruckt von Raabes Schreibstil, welcher sehr realistisch und bildlich ist. Auch die Liebesgeschichte hat eine viel tiefere Bedeutung. Eine empfehlenswerte Kurzgeschichte von einem wenig bekannten Autor.

[Czarny Pies]

This charming, elegiac tale is well worth the time required to read it for anyone anxious to become better acquainted with nineteenth century Prussian literature. Elderflowers is a tender reflection on the pain that when experiences when a loved one dies. Published seven years before Jews were emancipated in the Prussian Empire it is also a call for an end to social and legal discrimination against Jews.

Noticing elder flowers in the home where a young girl has recently died, the protagonist a Medical Doctor in his fifties thinks back to the elder flowers of the Jewish cemetery of Prague and Jemimah the niece of the cemetery's caretaker. Jemimah teaches the young medical student about the richness of her religion and inspires him to abandon his dissipated lifestyle so as to thoroughly dedicate himself to his profession. She then conveniently dies of an unnamed illness so as to spare the hero of having to terminate a relationship which society would never has accepted.

This story contains many beautifully written passages that describe the legendary cemetery. Jemimah is a truly enchanting heroine. The reader should well forgive Raabe for resorting in several places to heavily used devices from the canon of sentimental literarue.