关键词: 冯塔纳；《施泰希林》；空间诗学；中庸之道

Abstract: The famous German realist writer Fontanes Der Stechlin is a novel dealing with issues of tradition and modernity, new and old. This novel consciously highlights the contrast between the conservative aristocracy and the openminded aristocracy through subtly conceived spatial construction, and the author conveys his own attitude through comicstyle characterization of the former, that is, the aristocracy coming from the traditional society should be open and calm in the face of social development and changes of the times, given the unstoppable trend of the history. On the other hand, tradition and modernity, nature and industry are organically intertwined, both in the countryside of Stechlin and in the metropolis of Berlin. Tradition should accept advancement within the tolerable range and new things replace tradition only when necessary. The correct attitude towards historical development lies in the golden mean of harmonious coexistence of old and new things.

Key words: Theodor Fontane; Der Stechlin; spatial poetics; the golden mean