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Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 192
Utgivningsdatum: 2012-03-27
Förlag: Melville House
Översättare: Benjamin Dorvel
ISBN: 9781935554745

Eternal Philistine E-bok

av Odon Von Horvath, Shalom Auslander

E-bok (Drm), Engelska, 2012-03-27

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?At the World?s Fair in Paris I once lost my late husband and, just then, an elegant gentleman accosted me. As I look at him, he opens up his overcoat and hasn?t got anything on underneath. I only mention this in passing.? This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe?s descent into Fascism.It tells the tale of a failed used car salesman who wants to live the high life, and so decides to travel by train from Munich to Barcelona to attend the World?s Fair?in hopes of meeting a beautiful, rich woman who will provide for his every whim.It?s a highly stylized and, at times, raucously funny tale of the almost-absurd: a dark and satiric look at Europeans, and especially Germans, on the brink of cataclysm. Adrift in their acquisitive desires, they are vulnerable to the propaganda of the State?making this novel brilliantly foresightful in its understanding of politics and human nature at a crucial point in modern history.Ödön von Horváth?s scathing insight, in fact, led to his having to flee the very society he depicted when, living in Berlin, he drew the wrath of the Nazis. And yet this hilarious tour-de-force?written just after his escape, and just before his death in a tragic accident?eschews bitterness for rambunctious perseverance and compassion, and provides ample evidence of why von Horváth deserves renewed appreciation.

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