特奥多尔·冯塔纳(1819～1898)是十九世纪下半叶德国最为杰出的作家。他到快六十岁时才涉足长篇小说的创作,当时“铁血宰相”俾斯麦刚刚以武力统一德国不久。他的第一部长篇历史小说《暴风雨前》问世于1878年。自此一发不可收,文思泉涌,至逝世,在晚年短短的二十年光阴里,他创作 Teodor Fontane (1819-1898) was Germany’s most prominent writer in the second half of the nineteenth century. When he was almost 60 years old, he was involved in the creation of novels, when Bismarck, the “Predators”, had just unified Germany by force. His first long historical novel, The Tempest, came out in 1878. Since then, it can not be accepted, Wen Si Quan Chung, to death, in his later years as a short span of twenty years, he created