BOOKS - Viennese Romance
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Viennese Romance
Author: David Vogel
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.4 MB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.4 MB
Language: English
Available in English for the first time here is David Vogels previously unknown novel that had literary Israel abuzz when it was published in 2012 almost one hundred years after the author started working on itDavid Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure in modern Hebrew literature and his work has been compared to that of Joseph Roth Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka Vogel was thought to have written only a single novel his masterpiece Married Life which was published to great acclaim in 1929 Yet he had been working on another novel which was only discovered recentlySet in the early 1900s Viennese Romance tells the story of Michael Rost an eighteenyearold Jewish youth who travels to Vienna hungry for experience There he forms passing relationships with everyone who crosses his path prostitutes revolutionaries paupers army officers and rich men alike When a shady businessman takes the penniless Rost under his wing he rents a room in the home of an affluent bourgeois family He is seduced by the lady of the house while her husband is away on business and shortly after begins an affair with her sixteenyearold daughter as well This love triangle threatens to destroy the entire familyWith a foreword that explains how this lost novel came to light Viennese Romance is a seminal work that explores the conflicts faced by many Jewish intellectuals in early twentiethcentury Europe A compelling portrait of a decadent society it also lays bare the obsessivedestructive nature of love
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