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Indlæser... Saint Peter's Snow (1933)af Leo Perutz
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Llegit parcialment amnb poc interés. ( ) Written in 1933, five years before Perutz fled his native Vienna for a twelve-year exile in Palestine, Saint Peter’s Snow is an expertly constructed story at the intersection of modernist fiction and fable: between-the-wars ennui meets German romanticism, with a narrator all too conscious of his own mind playing tricks, the confusion of memory and dreams, conspiracy and subterfuge played out in a country village over a thrumming folkloric buzz. Perutz conjures characters and setting that can’t help but make a story: a Berlin physician without ambition, the mouldering estate of a retrograde Westphalian feudal baron with a green Cadillac, a femme fatale biochemist, a dissembling schoolmaster with a pet hedgehog, an impoverished priest, and the last members of several royal bloodlines. Throw in a little psychotropic experimentation, a bit of übermenschlich will to power, and some plain carnal longing and you’ve got a smart entertainment that finishes with a satisfying pop. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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It could have been a common street accident that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital, but for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car, he has memories of a more disturbing nature. What of the violent events in the rural village of Morwede? The old woman threatening the priest with a breadknife, angry peasants with flails and cudgels, Baron von Malchin with a pistol defending his dreams for the Holy Roman Empire--how could Dr. Amberg ignore these? And what of the secret experiment to make a mind-altering drug from a white mildew occurring on wheat--a mildew called Saint Peter's Snow. In this feverish tale of a man caught in the balance between two realities, Leo Pertuz offers a mystery of identity and a fable of faith and political fervor, banned by the Nazis when it was first published in 1933. Saint Peter's Snow is typical of Perutz's storytelling mastery: extraordinarily rich and elegant fiction that is taut with suspense, full of Old World irony and humor. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. No library descriptions found. |
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