Between Nine and Nine - Couverture souple

Perutz, Leo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1572411686 ISBN 13 : 9781572411685

Editeur : Ariadne Press, 2010

Synopsis

In turn-of-the-century nna the impoverished, foreign-born Stanislaus Demba, who earns his keep as a tutor of the children of the professional class, must urgently come up with two hundred crowns to take his girlfriend Sonja Hartmann to Italy in order to prevent her from going with the well-off law student Georg Weiner. In a series of highly humorous and intricately-connected vignettes the Czech-born Leo Perutz, himself an immigrant to nna, sends the enigmatic and generally unsympathetic Demba cascading through the city in his quest to obtain the needed money even as he strives to conceal his shameful secret. Besides offering a satire of contemporary life in his characterization of the ty bourgeoisie and the upper class, university professors and intellectuals, gallants and flirts, and gamblers and high-class thieves, Between Nine and Nine (1918) also sheds light on the forces that conditioned identity in fin-de-siecle nna: industrialization, misogyny, anti-Semitism, classism, and xenophobia. Through the modern, indeterminate narrative stance, the novel, originally entitled Freedom in its serialized version, ultimately depicts the contingency of self-determination and identity in a complex social milieu. On display in Between Nine and Nine are the author's skills as storyteller and caricaturist, his subtle and satiric humor, his highly refined aesthetic sensibilities, and his insightful social commentary. Readers unfamiliar with Perutz will find him delightfully provocative.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leo Perutz was born in Prague in 1882, a successful if self-proclaimed forgotten writer and an accomplished mathematician, has been hailed as one of Austrias foremost authors of the twentieth century by such writers as Ian Fleming, Italo Calvino, Graham Greene, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hermann Broch. His historical and fantastic novels, which offer thoughtful examinations of the unsettled identity of Freuds Vienna, hint of the mysterious, metaphysical, and enigmatic. Forced to emigrate in 1938, Perutz spent his latter years between Israel and Austria. He died in 1957 in Bad Ischl.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ariadne Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1572411686
• ISBN 13: 9781572411685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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