情书构成德国作家台奥多·冯塔纳长篇小说《迷惘与混乱》(1888)和《艾菲·布里斯特》(1896)的重要主题,展现出男女主人公介于爱情与婚姻之间的矛盾局面。本文将情书视作由情感与文字组成的沟通媒介,聚焦于其文本性、语义性和物质性,拟从三方面挖掘这两部作品对情书母题的演绎,考察十九世纪末市民社会中书写与情感文化的嬗变:1.旧日信札的日后效应:被发现或被焚烧(接受模式);2.婚前或婚后爱情关系中的告别信(书写场景);3.订婚者或夫妻之间的通信(情感沟通的失败)。 Love letters constitute an important theme for the German writer Epowon Fontane’s Lost and Trouble (1888) and Effie Brest (1896), revealing the contradiction between the hero and heroine between love and marriage situation. This paper regards love letter as a medium of communication composed of emotion and writing, focusing on its textuality, semantic and materiality. It is proposed to explore the deduction of the love letter motif by these two works from three aspects and to examine the writing of civil society in the late nineteenth century And the evolution of the emotional culture: 1. The future effect of the old letter: was found or was burned (acceptance mode); 2. premarital or marriage relationship farewell letter (writing scene); 3. engagement or marriage between husband and wife Communication (failure of emotional communication).