Others' Paradise: Tales of Old Prague - Softcover

Leppin, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 808626453X ISBN 13: 9788086264530

Verlag: Twisted Spoon Press, 2016

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Críticas

"Leppin (1878-1945), a civil servant revulsed by bourgeois life who reactively plunged into decadence, reads like the missing link between Baudelaire and the scalding satirical artist George Grosz." -Roy Olson, Booklist

"For Leppin Prague, and particularly its Jewish quarter, is the quintessential dead city ... [His] fairy tales are unique, however, in their combination of lyricism with a modernist disjointedness, concern with metatexts, and lack of completion pointing toward surrealism." -SEEJ

"Leppin was the truly chosen bard of the painfully disappearing old Prague ... a poet of eternal disillusionment, at once a servant of the Devil and an adorer of the Madonna." -Max Brod

Reseña del editor

Beginning with the highly imagistic "The Doors of Life," the eight stories contained in this volume detail the contours of the lives and visions of a collection of Prague inhabitants, from a prostitute bound to the decay of the old Jewish Quarter, to a man caught in the memory of a lost love and a shoemaker whose knowledge of the world has been constricted to the view from the window of his cellar workroom. Amidst their differing circumstances what these characters share is an intense desire for lasting human contact and the fated disappoinment of all such aspirations. Binding their personal histories, woven into their most intimate details, is Prague itself, the city whose nature, mythical and yet all-too-real, gives shape and force to their desires while simultaneously determining their frustrations.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Twisted Spoon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 808626453X
• ISBN 13: 9788086264530
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134