![]() Of course, they could be wrong or merely reflect an established taste that I don’t share. The Blue Flower –about the life of romantic poet and philosopher Novalis at the difficult moment of his idealisation of 12 year old Sophie von Kuhn, his ‘true Philosophy’- was the perfect vehicle to address that lack and I responded to it accordingly. Everyone else loved and admired it greatly. I liked the work and felt that probably I would like the author of such work, but also that there was something lacking in it. I knew the novels and very little about their author except that her previous novel, The Gate of Angels, had been universally hurrahed. Well, I wrote about The Blue Flower back in 1995. Penelope Fitzgerald has become the exemplum of a writer I want to admire more than I can. ![]()
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