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Baron Bagge
Hardback
Main Details
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Baron Bagge
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Alexander Lernet-Holenia
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Translated by Richard Winston
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Translated by Clara Winston
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Foreword by Patti Smith
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:96 | Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 138 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780241615614
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Classifications | Dewey:833.912 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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Publication Date |
27 October 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A chimerical masterpiece from one of Austria's most celebrated authors Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace... Baron Bagge - Alexander Lernet-Holenia's finest work - is a jewel that glimmers with a wintry, exquisite light. A meditation on duty and desire, it is both a perfect ghost story and a perfect love story - a tale to which the word 'haunting' can be applied in every possible permutation. This edition includes a new introduction, and an exchange between Lernet-Holenia and Stefan Zweig.
Author Biography
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author) Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protege of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi 'black-list' and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.
ReviewsAn utterly captivating account of the absurdity of war, the boundary between life and death, and love as a survival exercise -- Lea Ypi Accomplished and distinctive... blending military narratives, paranormal experiences and erotic obsessions * TLS *
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