he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.

restless longing for the blue flower, the second betrothal, etc., belong as much to the history of the modern poet Novalis as to that of the mediæval hero of the romance. The poets of the ...

The Blue Flower imagines the families, history and ideas of late 18th-century provincial Germany, the period in which the philosopher Novalis (Fritz von Hardenberg) was a young man, just when ...

The Blue Flower, published in 1995, is the fictional account of the life of the German Romanticist, Friedrich von Hardenberg, whose works were published under the pseudonym ‘Novalis’.