Q'S for THE BLUE FLOWER by PENELOPE FITZGERALD: Lesson 14 part 1

Ageless Creativity

Mary’s copy

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

This novel received the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Booker Prize when Fitzgerald was eighty years old. She published her first novel when she was sixty. Although this novel is brief, it is not a quick read. So get it used (she’s passed), public library or new.

Worth the journey for lovers of literature.

The Blue Flower could be called historical fiction. It’s a novel about a real person, the poet Novalis, penname for Friedrich von Hardenberg, who lived from 1772-1801.

Penelope Fitzgerald tells the fictional story of this man before he became Novalis, the poet.

Consider the questions that follow as you read (for paid subscribers):

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